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Comment · 2 months ago
Goubau Line or Goubau-Sommerfeld Line Arcane knowledge from the ham radio era. The more I learned about electricity, the less I know.

Not clickbate. Basically radio antenna running along the wire. Cool stuff

Video is from Dr. Pete jones

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Cool tool from the above blog post. Worth a look.

https://binvis.io/

Ps: I had the exact same thought!

Also: can programs be encoded into lossy image formats? Would be cool to see what image compression does to program functionality

Comment · 1 year ago
"only hire them if they raise the bar of the current team"
Comment · 1 year ago
Same!

Kind of goes to show if you optimize every parameter what the kind of crazy accuracy you can get

Comment · 1 year ago
A prototype of a micro manipulator that achieves accuracy smaller than a human hair! Using only clever stepper driver, careful selection of motor encoder, and so much more! Enjoy
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Loved this work! See some crazy cool implications.

Ive always wondered, if CA's are a canidate for making the smallest solution to computer programming problems.

Excitement: Id love to see a chatgpt running in hardware on a FPGA! that would be wild.

If a method was found for training these types of models in real time would be amazing for industrial applications. Click button and it learns the problem and can take updates as a assembly line goes along. Think QA problems

Questions: What are the training requirements for a scaled up version?

Can DLCA work with problems that require floating point?

Can the digital circuits generate float equivalents?

Could adding more advanced logical constructs like used in chip design benefit training?

How difficult would it be to convert a digital cicuit into a FPGA? What speedup gains could be achived?

Where are the ruff edges of this approch? Does it have some current scaling problems

Only criticism of this work is seeing some failures and what are its short comings.

Thought: Can this work be applied to a LLM? Is their and technical roadblocks to application of this to a llm, say lack of a ReLu or some sigmoid activation function . Does fpga's have ability for float like behavior? Idk

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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
cool research.

drop robot.

use paint brush

USA space pen vs USSR pencil situation.

question:

does the thicness of the material effect conductivity? could you have stensel or this? Is the placement of the electrodes need sub milimiter accureacy?

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