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A new "groundbreaking" #proof claims to shrink the space needed for #computation, as if we're all stuck managing mainframes from 1965. 🚀🔬 But don't worry, Scientific American is here to save the day with a story that reads like a rejected episode of The Twilight Zone. 🤖📚
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/ #groundbreaking #ScientificAmerican #TwilightZone #technology #HackerNews #ngated

New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/

#HackerNews #NewProof #Computation #Compression #Technology #Innovation #HackerNews

Universal pre-training by iterated random computation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057

#HackerNews #Universal #pre-training #iterated #random #computation #AI #research #machine #learning

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972

#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Large #Complexity #Computation #TuringMachines #HackerNews

Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.
...
Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.

From @brianmerchant@mastodon.social 's latest newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech

A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.

A while back I wrote in a post here:

under Taylorism the workers who actually do the work and know it best no longer have a say (opinion) in how that work gets done. Pseudo-scientific principles (scientific management, the astrology of MBAs) dictates all. Computers, from the very first, were intended and designed for this purpose.

riffing on what a lousy person Charles Babbage was and the lousy anti-worker plans he had for the proto-computers he designed. Among other things generative AI is another manifestation of the MBA pseudoscience known as scientific management and exists in a long line of digital technologies stretching all the way back to Babbage's.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #tech #dev #computation #ComputerScience #labor #organizing

"it's interesting how many things in computation follow this pattern"

https://x.com/woke8yearold/status/1937220427568283649

#computation #computers
#DiminishingReturns

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Alan Turing (1912) - highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of #Algorithm and #Computation.

Christoper Lotham Sholes received patent for Typewriter (1868).

Happy Birthday Zinedine Zidane (1972).

Today is UN Public Service Day, International #WidowsDay.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

@MidniteMikeWrites

I have a feeling that the study of systems composed of feedback loops (all of creation, I dare say!) will be of interest to you.

I understand it is called "cybernetics".

Please find attached an amusing 1949 Letter from the US Library of Congress to Norbert Weiner, asking him in which section his book "Cybernetics" is supposed to be.

#math #maths #mathematics #library #librarian #DeweyDecimal #physics #economics #biology #astronomy #science #computing #computation

1949 Letter from the US Library of Congress to Norbert Weiner, asking him which section Cybernetics is supposed to be in.

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/5075056/6708

#HackerNews #PeanoArithmetic #Computation #MathLogic #MathematicalFoundations #HackerNews

Today, I discovered that Postgres materialized views do _not_ inherit their parent table's indexes. This is why my spatial query is still running after 24hours.. 9000 × 50,000,000 = 450 billion geometry comparisons. Doh!

#postgres #computation #spatial #sql

“Astonishing #discovery by computer #scientist: how to squeeze space into time”

#KelseyHoustonEdwards PhD / #ChalkTalk / #computation / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=8JuWdXrCmWg>

AI: Cure All Diseases - Eric Schmidt on AI

#computation #drugdiscovery #drugs #ai #modeling

"Rather than rely on clever computation to make the best of conventional camera hardware, some engineers are instead experimenting with optical components such as new apertures, and animal-inspired sensors, that together can gather high-quality visual data that requires less intensive processing."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01660-5

#Computers #Vision #Nature #Computation #Optics

We predicted it and it happened! This week, startup Vaire announced that they've built the first #prototype of a chip that computes reversibly: it can recover some energy used in #computation. Vaire's CTO and co-founder Hannah Early says this is just the beginning.

Reversible Computing Has Poten...

My CPU is producing a lot of heat in recent days. Most of the time I'm doing #wakegp experiments to fine tune parameters. And I'm also compiling various versions of #Luanti to find out or fight with regressions and report them upstream.

I'm just glad I invested into buying this CPU plus a decent AIO. I can compile debug enabled Luanti from scratch in just about 5 minutes. Interestingly, compiling a debug enabled wakegp with incremental builds takes at least the same amount or even more.

wakegp is written in Rust, Luanti is written in C++. Luanti is a far larger codebase. But I guess the problem's that many of Luanti deps are shared libraries so I don't have to do the compiling or linking for them.

#Rust #programming #dailyNote #cplusplus #compiling #heavycomputation #computation

TOSID Update:
Added formal paper presentation
https://github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/main/tosid-paper.md

As PDF:
https://github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/main/tosid-paper.pdf

The TOSID (Taxonomic Ontological Semantic IDentification System) is a comprehensive taxonomic framework designed to uniquely identify and classify any conceivable entity across the universe. The system uses a structured alphanumeric code that embeds hierarchical information about an entity's fundamental nature, origin, scope, and specific identity.

Latest working (non-paper) version:
https://github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/main/tosid-01.md

Repo:
https://github.com/ha1tch/TOSID

#foss #semantic #taxonomy #compsci #computation #informationtheory #ontology #tosid

New Project!

The TOSID (Taxonomic Ontological Semantic IDentification System) is a comprehensive taxonomic framework designed to uniquely identify and classify any conceivable entity across the universe. The system uses a structured alphanumeric code that embeds hierarchical information about an entity's fundamental nature, origin, scope, and specific identity.

https://github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/main/tosid-01.md

#foss #semantic #taxonomy #compsci #computation #informationtheory #ontology