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Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness are NP-Complete?
A know what you're thinking: anon's gone all kooky mashing together a bunch of mysterious things, wrapping it in some gold foil, and worshipping it as an idol. Maybe, maybe not. Hear me out.... posted 50m ago with no replies received gnon computing

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Towards a supercoordination protocol
Inspired by >>2513 and >>2589 I have been thinking about what a software implementation of a supercoordination protocol might look like. Specifically, this is based on the signal/impact model presented in >>2570. I would be interested to hear what other an... posted 4w ago with 4 replies received computing

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Hard agree. That remains an unsolved problem for me. I imagine a world where that process is semi-automated via APIs -- as a crude example, maybe liking a tweet automatically registers a signal/impact loop with a very small positive weight.... 4w ago received

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Designing a word frequency auto-tagger for sofiechan
Let's talk about the upcoming auto-tagger architecture. All it has to do is produce affinity scores between threads and tags, and our now existent smart tag selector will select a high-affinity set of tags that also make a good index. To do this, it's goin... posted 1mo ago with 3 replies received meta computing

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It works! But slow as all hell. Right now we fully rebuild the "taste machine", which now includes this word frequency tagger, about once a minute. That used to do 50 iterations of the expectation-maximization algorithm we use to refine everyone's tastes, ... 4w ago received

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A Primer on E-Graphs (A technique to control combinatorial blowup in term rewriting systems)
About 10 years ago I was very interested in term rewriting as a basis for exotic programming languages and even AI. One of the big problems in term rewriting is that without a canonical deterministic ordering, you rapidly end up with an uncontrollable numb... (www.cole-k.com) posted 2mo ago with no replies received superintelligence computing

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Radiopaper
Radiopaper is an interesting data point in the design space of social media. They've put some thought into it and landed someplace very different from Sofiechan. Their goal is to "improve conversation quality," which sounds goods, but they do it buy leanin... (radiopaper.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received computing

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interesting indeed. They seem to be building on the substack idea of bringing money into it. I think this results in slop incentives. My usual argument against that is this: High quality thought and speech is a luxury activity for the idle rich and ascetic... 2mo ago received

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Why Momentum Really Works. The math of gradient descent with momentum.
https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/ posted 14mo ago with 3 replies received superintelligence computing

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Do you know if there is any predictability to the effect? I would guess it's related to catastrophic forgetting aka the reason stochastic gradient descent has to be stochastic. Basically if you update on one set of evidence without locking in those learnin... 14mo ago received

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A pinpoint brain with less than a million neurons, somehow capable of mammalian-level problem-solving.
https://rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem.html?fbclid=IwAR1b9QURSJnizgy7r4HD7UCYmc06A7uL5muc7igz8uJHxLAIZWEwDMSqyPk posted 2y ago with 15 replies received superintelligence computing

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Aristotle described animals as having souls* capable of knowledge derived from the senses and the capability to use that knowledge to support the movements characteristic of their species.... 1y ago received

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Higher-order Virtual Machine (HVM). New functional programming VM based on Interaction Nets.
https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM/tree/master posted 1y ago with 4 replies received computing

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Yeah Bend is the language built on the HVM. I haven't looked into it yet but I'd love to try it out when I get a chance. The other one I've recently been wanting to check out is Zig. It really does look like C with the problems fixed. But I have no great p... 1y ago received

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Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks, a new architecture for deep learning.
https://github.com/KindXiaoming/pykan posted 1y ago with 1 reply received superintelligence computing

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This is neat. Instead of having fixed nonlinear activation functions, they have trainable nonlinear functions instead of weights. They claim it has better scalaing properties and performance for many problems, and is more interpretable (because there are f... 1y ago received

This is neat. Instea received

Hundred Rabbits' "UXN" ultra-portable personal computing stack
They made a simple VM that can be implemented in a weekend by almost anyone that can run their whole suite of personal computing, artistic, gaming, music, creative, etc apps. This is one of the coolest projects out there and it proves that computing could ... (100r.co) posted 2y ago with 15 replies received technology computing

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see also on the general topic of minimalist computing: Suckless... 2y ago received

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