@TheBeardedOne You said delete india, but not delete the indians.

One is a quibbling territorial issue.

The other is genocide.

I think the indians might be a little upset to find ocean where their nation once was.

But I also think about half of them would agree with you.

@Demolishun software to control a laser welder?

Oh thats fucking cool.

Next up, a manned laser turret! I demand more dakka.

What are you working on?

@iiii not as weird as all the prior math.

the math for hash functions is pretty normal, it's the way it is being used that is novel.

@Ranchonyx I'll post some code sometime this weekend so people can play around with the system, see it in action, and work out first principles from demonstration.

The simplest version was generating two hash functions, h0, and h1.

h0 takes a list of numbers x, and outputs a seemingly random looking list of numbers y.

The magic happens with h1. in the earliest versions h1 tok y and outputs x again.

The trick was to write a function that, given h0, x, and y, found a hash function (h1) that output x again.

It's kinda beautiful actually and way simpler than it appears on the surface.

The first time you run gen_hash, and then plug in a list of numbers, or a converted string, only to get a seemingly random output, and then plug that into *another* hash which returns your original output 'unhashed', you'll understand the entire principle of the thing immediately.

Everything follows from that.

@12bitfloat other than math, os development is one of my favorite things to see threads and comments about.

Looking forward to more of this. Hope your project is coming along nicely.

@Ranchonyx "You're a madwoman."

I'm actually a guy, but thanks.

@retoor still needs to be cooled to sub-zero temperatures, but I thought it was an interesting project all-in-all, from microsoft of all places.

Optical quantum computing is a pretty neglected field compared to some of the other approaches.

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@Lensflare

As primitive as quantum is now, it'll probably be a pong clone first, but I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Optical quantum seems more practicable in all cases.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to use whether an output has an interference pattern or not (the quantum eraser, and two-slit experiment) to build optical quantum gates.

@Demolishun "I know its not related. But I wonder if we will ever have a VM that simulates dna in a cell. "

If we ever achieve workable and efficient quantum processors, you can bet thats exactly something that will be developed to run on them.

@Lensflare Took a quote from there "One physical basis of bloom is that, in the real world, lenses can never focus perfectly. Even a perfect lens will convolve the incoming image with an Airy disk (the diffraction pattern produced by passing a point light source through a circular aperture).[2] Under normal circumstances, these imperfections are not noticeable, but an intensely bright light source will cause the imperfections to become visible. As a result, the image of the bright light appears to bleed beyond its natural borders.

The Airy disc function falls off very quickly but has very wide tails (actually, infinitely wide tails)."

So not related. But it makes me think. If LLMs sometimes generate wrong answers b/c of issues with tail distribution, what would a statistical distribution and attention mechanism that mimics the airy disk look like?

Tails are after all infinite.

Probably need some non-image interpretation of the phenomenon 1st. It's fascinating though.

@BordedDev if a tree falls in the forest...

if no one shows up to the standup, and the boss isn't around to see it..

shades of "if a tree falls in the forest"

@We3D I just come back to this comment about once a week to be reminded that sugar gliders exist.

@retoor the face someone gets when they've taken too much Ritalin.

Forced participation in work-related tasks you're not paid for is by definition illegal.

Sorry to hear you've been roped into this crock of shit participation ceremony.

> it doesn't matter if it's a human or a bot. can it swipe a credit card and pay you money?

If it could, chatgpt would be a lot more popular.

@Lensflare > I only know bloom from computer graphics. Is it related?

I'm not familiar with computer graphics (I say, as I look at a computer monitor while typing this comment).

today I learned that oracle is a lawfirm that consumed and gained the abilities of a smaller, weaker, software company.

I'd just like to stop and imagine the engineer who designed that doorknob.

Probably the doorknob-manufacturers son-in-law with a months worth of autocad experience.

Or a psychopathic employee who enjoys malicious compliance as a mere hobby.

Like those people who design spikes for flat surfaces, or uncomfortable park benches that are impossible to sit or lay on for more than five minutes.

@Lensflare > Public transport is the worst.

But it can be highly entertaining!

Who doesn't like thrill seeking and taking their life into their own hands by riding public transportation.

If worldstar is anything to go by, buses are the modern gladiator arena.

@BordedDev Caffeine and nicotine keep people docile.

Caffeine is provided to society to keep them productive and not noticing their shit work hours which fuck with their sleep schedules while society melts and decays around them.

Nicotine makes people obedient, which is why people who never smoked before start smoking once they're in a stressful job.

Alcohol makes people docile to a certain level, letting them decompress under conditions that would normally lead to a revolt.

Which is why the smuggling of all these things, to a certain level, is allowed to happen in prisons.

Likewise why these substances are allowed and so widely promoted throughout civilization. Their affects at a society-wide level are well known.

Mostly people don't think of other people. People are just absentminded like that.

First learn to love yourself and then you won't have to worry about whether you are loved by others.

Just keep acting like everything they say is some sort of hilarious joke.

Really hammer it home. "thats so funny!"

Eventually it will begin to grate on them, and they'll get the message.

Seen it used, used it, works like a charm, totally deflates people after a while.

Theres gotta be a setting for that though right?

What are you trying to test for?

@BordedDev also the image here is dense, but the bottom right is how individual values are processed in the normal case.

The bottom-left corner has 3 notes that really contain the meat of the work.

The heavy lifting is done by finding a hash function h2 that given Zn, outputs Xn-1

AND also such that h2(yn) outputs Zn-1, because we know that h2(z) gives us y for a given z in the single-input case, and h3(y) gives x.

So having a hash function h2(), and a sequence-compressed Z, means automatically getting Zn-1, and thus yn-1, which with h3 gives us the next x value in the sequence during decompression.

The result is we go from Zn-1, to yn-1, to xn-1

then Zn-2, to yn-2, to xn-2, and so on rebuilding the original data in reverse, one element at a time.

People can get confused b/c of hashes like md5, where its letters and numbers. Here our hashes are numbers using a modular algorithm. Numbers go in, numbers come out. Means you have to convert inputs to integers 1st.

Inflation has gone absolutely wild.

@BordedDev Clever use of pi btw. Seen mathematicians ask if pi contains all sequences. If it does, then its sufficient to find the offset into pi that contains your data.

If pi doesn't, then the question becomes, is there an irrational number that *does* contain all sequences, and how would we go about finding, defining, and calculating it? Then the next question becomes, is there a way to calculate its digits at any given arbitrary offset?

And is there a way to find an offset matching any arbitrary data, without calculating all the prior digits?

Thats a fun one to think about.

@kobenz Hover your finger over the 'a' key. Now press it, and hold your finger down, while counting to 30.

Also doubles as a mental translator for when I don't understand the code.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..."

Insert random shift key presses while you do for bonus code therapy.

> Apparently, caffeine is now considered harmful.

Still gonna drink it.

*sips*.

They can take our freedom, but they can never take our caffeine.

Unless they do.

Better start tactical caches of beans now while you still can mate.