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Installing python: `mamba install python=3.9`
``` node2(X) <= W node1(Y), edge(X, Y) ```
Do you know, is it possible to implement something on Scallop as well, or are the differences much larger?
- content collapse: different mediums (tv, radio, newspaper) collapse onto a feed
- reality collapse: different forms of content, fictional or real collapse onto a single stream: propaganda, marvel universe, GPT-3, Dall-E, etc.
Could be a nice sci-fi theme.
It's not for everyone and it might be less general than what you aim for, but imho it' a good start.
If you happen to feel uneasy try this:
Look around and take a mental inventory of things around you: "This is a lamp. This is a table. This is a room..."
In this case we abstract over time in a system of computation. To be more precise the system is a non-deterministic automata, so we abstract over time and all the possible branches too.
Mapping out all state of a non-deterministic automata, you eventually find overlaps of different branches. To Wolfram this is a big revelation since instead of the system getting more complicated you found some simplification, aka. generality.
1. Which ones should I do to be prepared?
2. For a given problem how do I find the knowledge that should have helped me recognise and solve it?
Imho, the Competitive Programmer’s Handbook [1] does answer these, every trick and pattern is explained in the most succinct way, in the order you would want to progress on leetcode to see all the basic problem formulations. Afaik every random interview question would fit into one of these.
Let me know if you know a better one.
- Google using RL for chip layout optimization [1]
- Stanford profs optimizing lenses end to end with image processing [2]
As for the "diffractive deep neural network" paper it is not really a deep network as they don't implement the non-linearities in the optical domain. That still is the hard bit, so maybe the monocle is not realistic, but fortunately there are ways it can still speed up computation.
There is a general consensus that GPU-s enabled the current deep learning revolution and perhaps as argued by the Hardware Lottery paper [3] backprop is really just the current lucky ticket. So why not try to evolve hardware with ML for other algorithms too?
As for the questions raised, I do want to know your answer to this:
> a question for computer scientists, what single question would you ask if you have a dedicated computer that was [that multiplier] faster?
[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/chip-design-with-deep-rein...