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numbol··on Stochastic computing
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.

numbol··on Astronomers may have spotted the smallest possible stars
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
numbol··on Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
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
numbol··on Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)
Here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerios_effect
numbol··on 'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windbreak
numbol··on Syllabus Games: Educational Games List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHGTDTIE23c found it video from the same author
numbol··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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

numbol··on Systems explained by Humberto Maturana (2021)
If my understanding is correct, because Maturana was relatively strict about using autopoiesis only for biological systems with material and energy flow.
numbol··on Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites
maybe there is hope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_natural_satell...
numbol··on Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on YouTube. Is this a new thing?
So, bought subscription for Nebula for year (maybe should have gone woth Curiosity stream bundle).
numbol··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
So, bought subscription for Nebula for year (maybe should have gone woth Curiosity stream bundle).
numbol··on Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
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
numbol··on Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
numbol··on Mouse scroll wheel acceleration, implemented in user space
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 ^^ )

numbol··on Colossally Abundant Number
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_numb...

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

numbol··on A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossally_abundant_number
numbol··on A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren
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)
numbol··on These Lyrics Do Not Exist
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)
numbol··on Every Google result now looks like an ad
Because, in some sense, it is tht ad.
numbol··on Computational photography from selfies to black holes
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.

numbol··on Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms
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 ...

numbol··on Brains are the last frontier of privacy
CGP grey have a cool short video "I, phone" about that topic https://youtu.be/e-ZpsxnmmbE
numbol··on Show HN: Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine
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.

numbol··on Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
If you want more, search about "inverse problem"
numbol··on Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
I am tearing appart between these and forgoted really important things
numbol··on Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
Warning: Early stage of development

Thinking Notebook & Markdown IDE

MindForger is human mind inspired knowledge management tool which aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. Its mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated local, web and real world resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation, automatic interconnections, associative completion and inferencing.

https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger

numbol··on The physics of baking good pizza
Cyrillic based east european ._.
numbol··on The physics of baking good pizza
Yes, at least not worse than made-by-guideline freezed\simple recepies. This branch have some similar thoughts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17439057
numbol··on The physics of baking good pizza
1) agree, probably between awful and tolerable 2) yep, but in most home it isn't available(maybe in most homes in all remembered areas, excluding countryside) 3) yes(but one another time i have pyroelectric autocleaning oven and accidentally burnt accesories in it) 4) partly agree, but partly have ideas like ihm and franciscop https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17439057

sorry for slow answer

numbol··on The physics of baking good pizza
This post encouraged me to make account and leave a comment after couple years of read-only

/sorry for bad english/

Long ago, in yearly middle-school time I am argue with friends about optimum(by combined simplicity and taste score) way to bake frozen pizza, and all about with electric heating oven VS microwave. After some time oven was chosen, but I thinked that made oven pre-heaten was waste of time and try to approximate it with longer cooking in just powered oven. I have been tried to made some calculations with paper and microcalculator. Some years after I remembered it and understood that I was reinvent some integration stuff.

And pizza was burnt because all of this distraction