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Hacker News<p>Universal pre-training by iterated random computation</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Universal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pre</span></a>-training <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iterated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iterated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/random" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>random</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MidniteMikeWrites</span></a></span> </p><p>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.</p><p>I understand it is called "cybernetics".</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/librarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarian</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DeweyDecimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeweyDecimal</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computation</span></a></p>
Alexander Dunkel<p>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!</p><p><a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/postgres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postgres</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computation</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/sql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sql</span></a></p>
Soh Kam Yung<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01660-5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-01660-5</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Vision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vision</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Optics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Optics</span></a></p>
janIn short, intuition, insight, and creativity are not computable.<br>—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computability" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computability</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/abduction" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abduction</a>
jan…what if life itself is, even in principle, nonsimulable? There are, of course, many things that mechanization by rote does better than life, in terms of speed, repeatability, precision, and so forth. On the other hand, a living system…may be characterized by its ability to handle ambiguities and take chances, indeed, its ability to err. These are precisely the processes that cannot, by definition…, be modelled algorithmically.<br>—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/life" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#life</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computability" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computability</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/computation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/algorithms" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#algorithms</a>

The Fourier Transform is a mathematical operation that transforms a function of time (or space) into a function of frequency. It decomposes a complex signal into its constituent sinusoidal components, each with a specific frequency, amplitude, and phase. This is particularly useful in many fields, such as signal processing, physics, and engineering, because it allows for analysing the frequency characteristics of signals. The Fourier Transform provides a bridge between the time and frequency domains, enabling the analysis and manipulation of signals in more intuitive and computationally efficient ways. The result of applying a Fourier Transform is often represented as a spectrum, showing how much of each frequency is present in the original signal.

\[\Large\boxed{\boxed{\widehat{f}(\xi) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x)\ e^{-i 2\pi \xi x}\,\mathrm dx, \quad \forall\xi \in \mathbb{R}.}}\]

Inverse Fourier Transform:
\[\Large\boxed{\boxed{ f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \widehat f(\xi)\ e^{i 2 \pi \xi x}\,\mathrm d\xi,\quad \forall x \in \mathbb R.}}\]

The equation allows us to listen to mp3s today. Digital Music Couldn’t Exist Without the Fourier Transform: bit.ly/22kbNfi

Gizmodo · Digital Music Couldn't Exist Without the Fourier TransformThis is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny

There are problems in physics that are undecidable, even if you have all the initial information about the physical system.

"In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle."

quantamagazine.org/next-level-

Quanta Magazine · ‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of PredictabilityBy Charlie Wood
My sound installation « Antechamber » just opened on 14.02 at KW in Berlin and will be on display until May 4, alongside works by #MattCopson, #SungTieu and #MilosTrakilovic. It is an inquiry into various timekeeping systems to be experienced through rhythm, which sprang from my broader ongoing research on the origins and plurality of #computation. I am touched by the feedbacks and all the videos and photos that have been posted, showing how visitors interact with the space in their own way. As I say sometimes, it’s an exhibition of people. It also finds ways to evade our culture of images.

Thank you to the dream team Emma Enderby & Nikolas Brummer for their support, trust and care during the process. Special thanks to the KW technical team for the install and to Nathalie Pozzi for her architectural advising. And congrats again to Emma for this new directorship, as well as for her generous curatorial vision, encompassing a refreshing vision of the role of the curator and a crucial awareness of local questions 🙏🏾

#contemporaryart #soundart #experimentalmusic

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that.

Not true.

A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.

What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told."

chadnauseam.com/coding/random/

Chad Nauseam Homecalculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…

Yesterday, my #soundinstallation "Antechamber" opened at KW Institute for #ContemporaryArt in Berlin 🥵 and will be on display until May 4. It is an inquiry into various timekeeping systems through rhythm, which sprang from my broader ongoing research on the origins and plurality of #computation :www_server:

kw-berlin.de/en/jessica-ekoman

KW Institute for Contemporary ArtJessica Ekomane – Curatorial Interview – KW Institute for Contemporary Art
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@cryptadamist One of the reasons has to do with the nature of computation itself. #AI #algorithms are often highly complex (a technical term characterized by time and space requirements). AI demands computing resources that are intrinsically (mathematically) difficult to provide in “conventional” computers. It pushes the boundaries on #computation which are partially imposed by the design and engineering of computer systems. 2/n

The #Public #Cloud

I’m more and more inclined a public cloud is the only humane response to the Techno-Feudalist/fascists of Silicon Valley & beyond.

There will be so many #bots, so much #scam that each of us will have to run #machinelearning models just to survive the new post-#ai age.

#Digital #citizens should demand secure #computation cycles as a natural right, because that is the world about to begin.

It is the only answer to #LuxurySurveillance #dataheist #capitalism: Run your own.

Riffs and Rotes • Happy New Year 2025
inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

\( \text{Let} ~ p_n = \text{the} ~ n^\text{th} ~ \text{prime}. \)

\( \text{Then} ~ 2025
= 81 \cdot 25
= 3^4 5^2 \)

\( = {p_2}^4 {p_3}^2
= {p_2}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_3}^{p_1}
= {p_{p_1}}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_{p_2}}^{p_1}
= {p_{p_1}}^{{p_1}^{p_1}} {p_{p_{p_1}}}^{p_1} \)

No information is lost by dropping the terminal 1s. Thus we may write the following form.

\[ 2025 = {p_p}^{p^p} {p_{p_p}}^p \]

The article linked below tells how forms of that sort correspond to a family of digraphs called “riffs” and a family of graphs called “rotes”. The riff and rote for 2025 are shown in the next two Figures.

Riff 2025
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Rote 2025
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Reference —

Riffs and Rotes
oeis.org/wiki/Riffs_and_Rotes

#Arithmetic #Combinatorics #Computation #Factorization #GraphTheory #GroupTheory
#Logic #Mathematics #NumberTheory #Primes #Recursion #Representation #RiffsAndRotes