Hacker News Reader

I previously made a toy VM where a program consisted of a matrix, rows corresponded to instruction slot, and then the values in that row were probabilities for different instructions. This means probability of emitting a specific output is differentiable in the probabilities, which can then be learned.

Didn't get very good results though.

View on HN

There's also [0], which I found to be almost eerie, where someone has tried to use evolutionary programming for an FPGA, with the result that the winning generation exploited the analogue characteristics of the concrete FPGA chip being used (i.e. it did not work on another FPGA chip of identical type).

Maybe I'm a bit peculiar, but this article sent chills down my spine.

[0] http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com