This document discusses how nature is an innovation lab that utilizes algorithms and principles found in biological systems. It notes that DNA acts as high-density storage, cells have CPU and compilers to run programs to recreate themselves, and there are protein printers in each cell. Genetic algorithms were inspired by biological evolution using replication, mutation, and selection. The immune and neural systems demonstrate adaptive machine learning, and slime molds have been shown to recreate optimal networks without a nervous system through external memory processing.