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Re:Stochastic Computing on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:15AM (#45898033)
It seems that those two (actually three or four) ideas are parallel and not always compatible.

[please forgive my grammar]

1. There is noisy computers which can work despite or because some unreliable part. Neural netwroks are quite ok with it for example, so some people speculate that it will be possible to build specialized noisy circuits for specific networks. 2. There is stochastic computing, in which complicated numerical functions represented as probability density distributions (?) 3. And then there is probabalistic computing, when state randomly updated in accordance with some "temprature". 4. And finally there is randomized algoritms, which are closer to classical computer science but with some stream of input. Howver, people like Avi Wigderson who succesfully removed the "random" parts of those algoritms.

Plus there is funny things with non-associativity of floating-point numbers which can lead to non-determinism when the order of execution (summation for example) is arbitary, which can lead to funny results. But because neural netwroks are robust to noise to some degree, it will still work.

And the stuff which done by Avi Wigderson requires that computers work in determinstic way (except of that random stream), so it will not be very compatible with unreliable noisy computations. However, it seems that stochastic, probabalistic and noisy computations could be combined.

Re:Astronomers may have spotted the smallest possible stars on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:20PM (#42122577)
Just for pedantic remark, brown dwarfs is not stars, but they are substellar objects and formed in the similar fation (and this is why question about edge case of very large exoplanted vs very small brown dwarf is interestring)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substellar_object definition relies on sustained hydrogen fusion
Re:Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) on Sunday September 29, 2024 @07:05AM (#41686525)
There is a book on this topic, "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-15524-1 There are many youtube videos where Ken explain those ideas, this one for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2I4E_UINRo
Re:Syllabus Games: Educational Games List on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:33AM (#38531202)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHGTDTIE23c found it video from the same author
Personally, one solution is to subsrcibe for Nebula + CurisoityStream bundle to support creators (bought 2 subscriptions for me and friend) https://curiositystream.com/?coupon=nebula and use something like PeerTube for the rest of the stuff.

Youtube have great catalogue of the lectures and other educational material, so it is still kinda irreplaceable

Re:Systems Explained by Humberto Maturana on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:42PM (#36173487)
If my understanding is correct, because Maturana was relatively strict about using autopoiesis only for biological systems with material and energy flow.
So, bought subscription for Nebula for year (maybe should have gone woth Curiosity stream bundle).
So, bought subscription for Nebula for year (maybe should have gone woth Curiosity stream bundle).
Re:Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map on Friday April 28, 2023 @10:37PM (#35749508)
wow that is cool! Thank you for that clarification looks like geostationary used for stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System
It was also implemented physically in some mouses

for example, Logtiech G502: " Dual-Mode Hyper-Fast Scroll Wheel

Unlock the scroll wheel for hyper-fast continuous scrolling to spin quickly through long pages, or lock it down for single click precision scrolling. The weighty, metal wheel delivers confident, smooth and satisfying control for either mode. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aANF2OOVX40 ( Interstellar Mouse ^^ )

Re:Colossally Abundant Number on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:07AM (#35550822)
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_numb...

Were there any serious attempts to build hardware 60-based system?

This is more to that! 60 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_numb... which means that lot of fractional numbers can be represnted in nice way. And because one year is around 360 days and 12 (another superior highly composite number) is roughly correspond to number of lunar months in the year, people used those to based their calendar and angular measurments around that. And 60 is very close to 64, so it could be nicely represented in binary... (10 is kinda akward, too big for 8 and too small for 16)
Re:These Lyrics Do Not Exist on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:42AM (#22342014)
Hm, I want to say that this lyrics pretty much exists. Photo of person can be faked, but faked song or text is still (but maybe arbitary bad and non-original) as real and true as "real" song or text If i remember correctly, this idea was in G.E.B. (sorry for bad english)
Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:20PM (#22109713)
Because, in some sense, it is tht ad.
Re:Computational photography from selfies to black holes on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:54PM (#21754804)
Sorry for bad english, and maybe I am deeply wrong, but:

In extreme cases, it even not "photo" as some information about photons recieved by some optic system with noise reduction afterwards. Not, it just pictures, based on recognised faces, objects and stars. And I don't know why, but I feel panifully bad about it. It is not approximation of world-how-it-is, but some expectation about world-how-people-want-it. It can recognise constellation based on few stars, and will draw nice picture of great stary sky, but will delete starlink sattelite, meteora or supernova as some unexpected noise.

Re:Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:54AM (#21744148)
Funny, it deeply resembles the last episodes of "Silicon Valley"

More seriously, the generalized compression algorithm can be one of the keys or even one of the definitions of generalized artificial intelligence

And Kolmogorov’s complexity was present by a subtle reference in the very last episode ...

Re:Brains are the last frontier of privacy on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:44AM (#21046468)
CGP grey have a cool short video "I, phone" about that topic https://youtu.be/e-ZpsxnmmbE
Re:Show HN: Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:38PM (#19393431)
Pleasantly reminiscent the cover artwork of "Unknown Pleasures" (Pulsar!)

Perhaps someone in the near future will make a similar art cover using graphs of exoplanet transits.

Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:04AM (#18239747)
If you want more, search about "inverse problem"

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