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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>
Anthony<blockquote>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.<br>...<br>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.<br></blockquote>From <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/brianmerchant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@brianmerchant@mastodon.social</a></span> 's latest newsletter: <a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech</a><br><br>A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.<br><br>A while back I wrote in a <a href="https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1726923551.308862" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">post here</a>:<br><blockquote>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.<br></blockquote>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.<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=agenticai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgenticAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computation</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=computerscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a><br>
M. Grégoire<p>"it's interesting how many things in computation follow this pattern"</p><p><a href="https://x.com/woke8yearold/status/1937220427568283649" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/woke8yearold/status/1937</span><span class="invisible">220427568283649</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computation</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a><br><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/DiminishingReturns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiminishingReturns</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of Alan Turing (1912) - highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithm</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computation</span></a>.</p><p>Christoper Lotham Sholes received patent for Typewriter (1868).</p><p>Happy Birthday Zinedine Zidane (1972).</p><p>Today is UN Public Service Day, International <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WidowsDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WidowsDay</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></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>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“Astonishing <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discovery</span></a> by computer <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientist</span></a>: how to squeeze space into time”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/KelseyHoustonEdwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KelseyHoustonEdwards</span></a> PhD / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChalkTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChalkTalk</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/computation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computation</span></a> / &lt;<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=8JuWdXrCmWg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=8JuWdXrCmW</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a>&gt;</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>

TOSID Update:
Added formal paper presentation
github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/m

As PDF:
github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/m

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:
github.com/ha1tch/TOSID/blob/m

Repo:
github.com/ha1tch/TOSID

…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.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#life #computability #computation #algorithms
“A computer is a very specific kind of mathematical structure, it means computational mathematics. If you study the mathematics as an abstract subject you rapidly learn that there are things way way beyond computability. … You can't get at it by an algorithm.”
—Roger Penrose
https://youtu.be/biUfMZ2dts8?t=942
#mathematics #computation #computability #algorithms

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