(7 of 7) Quine-spirations: To infinity and beyond
Aug 16, 2024 · 7 min read · Stephen Hawking begins his book, A Brief History of Time, with this story: A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, ...
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(6 of 7) PolyQuine: The rosetta stone of computing
Aug 10, 2024 · 7 min read · Welcome back to our Quine saga! We've delved into self-replication, hidden messages, and even self-healing code. Now, prepare to be dazzled by another mind-bending concept: PolyglotQuine, or PolyQuine for short. Before PolyglotQuine, let's understand...
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(5 of 7) Radiation hardened Quine: Whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stronger
Aug 3, 2024 · 5 min read · Welcome back to our series on Quines! We've delved deep into the world of self-replication, exploring everything from introns to multi-language shape-shifters. Now, let's push the limits of Quine resilience and talk about a fascinating concept: Radia...
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(4 of 7) MultiQuine: Weaving the web of Quines
Jul 27, 2024 · 6 min read · Previously, we've seen how to construct QuineRelays by leveraging the existence of Introns. Now, prepare to have your minds blown once again as we unlock the next level of Quine wizardry: MultiQuine We start by saying what a Bi-Quine (or more general...
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(3 of 7) QuineRelay: Birth of the Quine serpent
Jul 20, 2024 · 6 min read · In the previous adventures of the Quine blog series, we explored how to write our own Quines and Introns. Today we will see what QuineRelays are and how you can leverage Introns to create them. Imagine a circle of programs, each written in a differen...
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(2 of 7) Intron: Junk or not Junk, that is the quine-tion
Jul 13, 2024 · 4 min read · Last time, we cracked the code of Quines, those clever programs that echo their own source code. We crafted them with surgical precision, including only the bare essentials for self-replication. But here's a question: Can we sneak in some extra, even...
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(1 of 7) Quine: Self replicating computer programs
Jul 6, 2024 · 8 min read · A Quine, (/kwi:n/ pronounced Kwine) is a self-replicating computer program, a digital life if you will. It takes no input and prints a copy of its own source code. This may sound impossible, trivial, or completely uninteresting, depending on your tem...
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Quines Are Not Self-Replication
Feb 17, 2022 · 4 min read · Original post: here. If we were to read the blog post here entitled: Quines (self-replicating programs), then we would see it make a few definitions and points about quines. Firstly it defines quines as such: Def. 0 - Quine - a computer program whic...
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