2016-01-06.log

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FourFirekanzure, re tDCS: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/ppp_professuren/physiologische_psychologie/Publikation/Electrified_minds_Transcranial_direct_current_stimulation.pdf00:56
FourFireI'm ordering this thing, for initial tests: http://www.foc.us/focus-go-flow-tdcs-brain-stimulator00:58
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poppingtonic.title http://www.foc.us/v2-tdcs-developer-edition01:18
yoleauxfoc.us v2 tdcs - tDCS Devices Available to Buy01:18
justanotheruserhttp://gfycat.com/TemptingCourageousAfricanmolesnake01:26
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archels"The more extreme version is known as transhumanism (h+ for short)."01:43
archelsextreme, yo01:43
poppingtonicarchels: extreme version of what?01:52
poppingtonic.title http://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/everything-that-rises/01:52
yoleaux[Easy Chair] | Everything That Rises, by John Crowley | Harper's Magazine01:52
archels.ttle https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/759.summary01:55
archelsgrm. short Christof Koch review piece01:56
archelswith all due respect to Dr. Koch, not even worth the click01:56
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kanzure.title06:26
yoleauxThe End of the Beginning for the Brain06:26
JayDuggerpoppingtonic, I have been very pleased with foc.us and their customer service.06:32
JayDuggerWhether their new US$9 model is any good--I don't know.06:33
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kanzureoh noes.... george church is an x-risker.07:56
kanzureanti-x-risker.07:56
kanzurelook at al these replies, damn http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai07:57
kanzurejaron lanier is wasting literally everyone's time07:58
kanzuregershenfeld, smolin, church... wtf.07:58
kanzurekevin kelly too..... why do we let jaron lanier out of his cage at all?07:58
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JayDuggerBecause he's a good punching bag?08:32
kanzurejaron lanier? no, he's not a good punching bag. he never leaves. he's terrible.08:32
JayDuggerAh...he keeps most people from getting worried?08:33
JayDugger"It'll never happen and you don't have to worry about it because I say so" and so on?08:33
xentracis this a new jaron thing or an old jaron thing?08:34
JayDuggerOld in my case. I stopped reading him long ago.08:34
JayDuggerNew if kanzure's talking about something recent.08:34
JayDuggerFourFire, you might want to get the developer's edition instead.08:35
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kanzurejaron lanier stuff is always old08:37
JayDuggerHas Lanier done anything since his early telepresence work?08:38
kanzurewasted my time08:39
kanzurehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg08:47
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poppingtoniche did some cool vr stuff back before the first bust, and his tech was included in a movie08:55
poppingtonicxentrac: he's the same as before. look at his book "you are not a gadget" and you'll see arguments from the same train of thought08:56
kanzureonly 75 scholar.google.com results for '"kolmogorov complexity" cerebellum'. yeesh.08:59
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kanzureand one of them is eliezer hrm.09:03
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esmereldaCerebellum in particular?09:06
esmereldaJayDugger: most recently Lanier is working on project Commodore within Hololens iirc09:07
kanzure"Testing a neural coding hypothesis using surrogate data" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2529148/09:07
esmereldaWhoa. His website is classic 90s09:08
JayDuggerThank you esmerelda.09:13
kanzure"The importance of lateral connections in the parietal cortex for generating motor plans" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.013466909:14
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kanzure"The role of the cerebellum in perceptual processes" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12311-014-0627-7/fulltext.html09:21
kanzure"Thus, in electroreception, the cerebellum is involved in sensing external targets by exploiting distortions in signals generated by the animal’s own activity, while cerebellar-like circuits are involved in sensing external targets by eliminating distortions of target signals caused by the animal’s own activity." eeeeeee09:22
kanzure"The cerebellar cortical circuit common to the cerebellum and cerebellar-like circuits has apparently evolved independently in at least five groups of animals: vertebrates, cephalopod molluscs, arthropods, onychophorans, and polychaete annelids. All species in which cerebellar and/or cerebellar-like circuits have been reported are motile and sufficiently large that their kinematics is influenced by inertia, and they interact with other ...09:23
kanzure... such animals. Inertia constrains how the kinematic state (position, configuration, and rates of change) of an object changes as a function of applied force, such that, if an object has inertia, then information about its kinematic state can be used to predict its future position and configuration at least in the short term. This is not true of animals (or indeed objects of any kind) whose mass is small or drag is large relative to ...09:23
kanzure... applied forces [68]."09:23
kanzure"Animals that have evolved cerebellar(-like) circuits are, therefore, animals for which probabilistic inference about the kinematic states of self and others is both possible and useful. The fact that this group includes disparate, unrelated species indicates that the genetic and developmental capacity for cerebellar(-like) circuits may be shared by all animals with nervous systems and that it has been co-opted by evolution whenever ...09:23
kanzure... there has been an ecological opportunity for animals capable of dynamic motion prediction and control [69]. More generally, the ability to predict state trajectories of dynamical systems from observations provides a core capability that may underpin a wide variety of perceptual, cognitive, and motor tasks [70]."09:23
kanzure"Until a few years ago, the Kalman filter was the only known practical algorithm for dynamical state estimation [71]. It assumes linear target dynamics, an assumption that does not hold for mechanical linkages like human and animal bodies. Newer algorithms based on drawing random samples from probability distributions defined by observations are able to track states of high-dimensional nonlinear systems [72]. These algorithms can be ...09:24
kanzure... implemented using spiking neurons, in which a spike at a particular location in a network represents a sample at a particular location in the state space of the system tracked by the network [73, 74]. There is growing evidence that neurons use Bayesian Monte-Carlo algorithms of this kind to implement decisions and actions [75–83]."09:24
esmereldaThis also sounds quite a lot like reinforcement learning09:32
esmereldaLike, it's a Markov decision process if neurons represent states of a system right?09:32
kanzurereinforcement learning does not impose restrictions on implementation like "one neuron per state space point"09:33
esmereldaSo it could be reinforcement learning, then?09:34
esmereldaOne particular implementation thereof09:34
Diablo-D3.title http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2664187709:48
yoleauxA Culture-Brain Link: Negative Age Stereotypes Predict Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers. - PubMed - NCBI09:48
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kanzure"the real problem is a super-charming machine, not super-intelligent machine" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085167411:04
esmereldaSuper-charming people tend to be problems too, I've found.11:06
Diablo-D3[10:57:58] <kanzure> look at al these replies, damn http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai11:11
Diablo-D3[10:58:03] <kanzure> jaron lanier is wasting literally everyone's time11:11
Diablo-D3kanzure: btw, I agree, that entire article is a waste of time11:12
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Diablo-D3I don't even know why everyone thinks AI is the end of the world anyways11:13
Diablo-D3AI is just software11:13
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Diablo-D3can my computer kill me? no? it won't if I install an AI on it either.11:14
Houshalterare humans just software?11:14
Diablo-D3_anything_ further discussing that line of thought is just stupid, no matter what side you're on11:14
Diablo-D3but that article in-particular? its not even coherent11:15
Houshalterintelligence isn't harmless11:15
Diablo-D3Houshalter: yeah, but its like, ZOMG A 4 YEAR OLD MIGHT KILL SOMEONE11:15
Diablo-D3usually, 4 year olds don't kill people11:15
esmereldaHumans are legacy code - undocumented, and very difficult to maintain11:16
esmereldaIt took the dev team 4 billion years and it looks like they ran obfuscators11:16
Diablo-D3hah11:16
Diablo-D3seriously though, we can't even produce intelligent humans most of the time11:17
Diablo-D3whats the chances we'll make a software intelligent enough that can actually run on any sort of hardware that isn't just locked up at google or microsoft or w/e somewhere11:18
esmereldaWill we discover general-purpose AI all at once (I.E. comparable generality to humans in learning and achieving goals)11:19
esmereldaor will AIs slowly get smarter and more general?11:19
Diablo-D3esmerelda: yes, to both questions.11:19
Diablo-D3its not something that you can just answer like that.11:19
esmereldaI was mostly looking for arguments for and against11:19
Diablo-D3what I don't like is how every AI discussion is just philosophical bullshit strung together11:20
Diablo-D3tl;dr of jaron lanier's article? "we're just worshipping a new God, enriching those behind the curtain pulling the levers and ropes"11:21
HoushalterDiablo-D3, do you believe superintelligent AI is impossible11:21
Diablo-D3Houshalter: I can't answer that.11:21
Diablo-D3I can tell you it can exist given enough horsepower.11:22
Houshalterlike there is osme law of nature that says that humans are the peak of intelligence and no improvement is possible11:22
Houshalterwell if superintellligent AI is possible, then it is incredibly dangerous.11:22
Diablo-D3okay so11:22
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Diablo-D3lets say you have the smartest brain possible11:23
esmereldaI saw an article a while back describing a theoretical "optimal AI" using a simple (but extremely slow) algorithm11:23
Diablo-D3but its in a jar11:23
Diablo-D3and its interaction with the outside world is heavily regulated11:23
Diablo-D3not an AI, a brain11:23
esmereldaAssume one feed of sensory input data, Sk11:23
Diablo-D31960s scifi and everything11:23
Diablo-D3unless you're putting that brain in an atomic powered robot body11:24
Diablo-D3I can't really see anything going wrong11:24
esmereldaAnd an infinitely enumerable set of models Mk11:24
Diablo-D3its not like, ghost in the shell, where military AIs escape to the internet and copy itself to mainframes everywhere11:24
HoushalterDiablo-D3, why are you assuming AI will exist in a jar? once the technology exists, people will put it everywhere11:24
Diablo-D3Houshalter: not in my lifetime unless there is a massive increase in computational power11:24
Diablo-D3the most powerful "computer" in the world is owned by Google11:25
Diablo-D3its a massive gigantic super-cluster, that doesn't meet the requirements of being on the top500 list11:25
HoushalterDiablo-D3, massive increases in computational power happen every other year11:25
Diablo-D3Houshalter: except they don't11:25
Diablo-D3there may have not been a massive increase in my lifetime.11:25
Diablo-D3it was faster when I was a kid11:25
Houshaltertherre has been a massive increase in the past 5 years, let alone your lifetime11:26
Diablo-D3but all the really huge jumps happened in the late 70s11:26
Diablo-D3we have different definitions of massive increase, I think11:26
Houshalterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Cost_of_computing11:26
esmereldaIt would find the j such that Sum_k[Abs(Sk-Mj(Sk))]/KolgomorovComplexity(Mj) is maximized11:26
Diablo-D3Houshalter: _cost_ of computing isn't the issue11:26
Diablo-D3and flops is not a useful measurement of computational power11:26
Houshalteryes it is, and yes it is11:27
Diablo-D3I'm not saying computers aren't getting faster11:27
Diablo-D3but there has been no real major jumps11:27
esmereldaIe. Aply Occam's razor by enumerating models starting with low-complexity going to high-complexity, and choosing the least complex model that explains the sensory input11:27
Diablo-D3the biggest thing in my entire lifetime? home computers getting multiple cores in an SMP arrangement11:27
HoushalterAI is powered by FLOPS, and the cost is the fairest unit to measure that11:28
Diablo-D3I used to own a P3 550, it was the most powerful computer a home owner could have at the time11:28
Diablo-D3I now carry it in my pocket.11:28
Diablo-D3Houshalter: flops are generally measured by uselessly spamming MADs.11:28
esmereldaComputing power is useless without an algorithm11:29
Diablo-D3you have to measure many things, including various interconnect bandwidths and latencies, RAM speeds, storage IO speeds, etc11:29
Diablo-D3esmerelda: I agree11:29
Diablo-D3but whatever algorithm we end up creating, it will require massive compute power11:29
Diablo-D3and its not a problem you can easily parallelize either11:30
esmereldaDiscussions of computing power are useless as a corollary. Without knowing the algorithm, we don't know what computing hardware will work it efficiently11:30
esmereldaUh citation needed11:30
Diablo-D3by "easily parallelize" I mean we can't merely throw GPGPUs at it.11:30
HoushalterDiablo-D3, why not? that's literally how AI has been progressing11:31
esmereldaWhy not? Do you know how the algorithm has to be structured then?11:31
TMAthe most advance we got in computing power in recent years is from parallelism, not from enhancing the raw single-thread power11:31
Diablo-D3Houshalter: AI research has been using it when it makes sense11:31
Diablo-D3TMA: yes.11:31
HoushalterI think AI will probably move to FPGAs and ASICs instead of general purpose computers, which gets it an order of magnitude improvement11:31
Diablo-D3I mean, I'm not sure why Houshalter is arguing with me11:31
Diablo-D3this is all well known computer history 10111:31
esmereldaDoesn't your brain literally process millions of simultaneous firings simultaneously?11:31
Diablo-D3Houshalter: yes/no.11:31
Diablo-D3esmerelda: yes, but that doesn't mean that is a useful model for AI11:31
Diablo-D3esmerelda: remember, our brain runs at like 100hz too11:32
TMAthere is some promise in HP/HPE "The Machine" provided it turns out real and not a vaporware11:32
esmerelda100hz because it is massively parallel...11:32
HoushalterDiablo-D3, i'm arguing with you saying that dangerous superintelligence isn't likely in our lifetimes. I strongly believe that it is. You are betting everything on technology stagnating which is jsut unreasonable11:32
esmerelda100hz, and like a quadrillion parallel instructions per cycle11:32
kanzuremost dangerous things that superintelligence could do are things that non-super intelligence can do, it's a non-concern in my opinion11:32
Diablo-D3Houshalter: okay so, I once wrote a bitcoin miner, it ended up becoming the world's most popular miner for gpus.11:32
kanzurehumans are perfectly capable of nuking the earth or igniting the atmosphere, thanks. now get the hell out of my channel.11:33
Diablo-D3Houshalter: no one uses it anymore, everyone uses ASICs now.11:33
Diablo-D3I suspect more computation power is being spent on bitcoin than anything else.11:33
kanzure"computation power"11:33
kanzureyou are ambiguous and i hate you11:33
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esmereldakanzure: are there any groups working on general purpose AI?11:33
Diablo-D3kanzure: I actually used to run a graph that'd list hash power in 7970 equivalents.11:34
kanzureesmerelda: yes, why do you ask?11:34
esmereldaor were they killed off in the last AI winter11:34
Diablo-D3and also CPU equivalent11:34
kanzurewhich one was the last winter?11:34
esmereldaI'm curious to see architectures being considered11:34
Diablo-D3esmerelda: Im not even sure the AI winter ever existed11:34
esmereldaThe one before CNNs11:34
kanzureesmerelda: well there's boring stuff like opencog, and then exciting things like markram blue brain human brain project thingy.11:34
Houshalterkanzure, well yes humans could destroy the earth easily if we wanted to. thank god we don't want to. The problem with AI is that it would want to do that11:34
Diablo-D3the problem is not AI winters happen, but soon as a technology starts working and everyone integrates into their products, it stops being AI11:34
esmereldaI thought HBP was a giant boondoggle11:34
kanzureHoushalter: humans want to blow up the earth. i'm one of them.11:34
esmereldaDiablo-D3: tell that to the expert system programmers11:35
Houshalterkanzure, well they've been really bad it at so far11:35
kanzureDiablo-D3: that's fucking absurd. how about instead of claiming "AI stops being AI", how about "people were wrong to call these things AI". duh?11:35
kanzureoh my god i hate all of you so much11:35
kanzurethis is why the planet needs to be blown the fuck up11:35
Diablo-D3kanzure: well, thats honestly what Ive been saying11:35
Diablo-D3but I get yelled at when I do that11:35
kanzureDiablo-D3: no, you just said the opposite. don't lie to me.11:36
Diablo-D3kanzure: yes, because people don't bitch when I say that11:36
esmereldakanzure: do you want to blow up the earth before we save a backup?11:36
kanzureyou were hanging out with the wrong people, and it shows negatively on you that you didn't recognize this11:36
Houshalterkanzure, wtf11:36
Diablo-D3kanzure: yeah, but somehow I'm wrong if I say everyones the wrong people.11:36
Diablo-D3at least 90% of the human population may, in fact, be too stupid to live.11:37
kanzureHoushalter: i have no idea why you are less interested in humans blowing up the planet.11:37
Diablo-D3I'm the bad guy if I kill off 90% of the human population.11:37
kanzureesmerelda: no i don't think so. there's good science in there somewhere.11:37
Diablo-D3So, w/e11:37
Diablo-D3if I want social interaction with normal people, I phrase it as "it stops being called AI" instead of "it probably wasn't AI to begin with"11:37
kanzureDiablo-D3: "AI stops being AI when it is integrated" has nothing to do with killing off 90% of the population. thanks.11:37
Diablo-D3like, people call google now and siri AI11:38
Diablo-D3I don't know why11:38
Houshalterkanzure, because i'm not a comic book villian?11:38
Houshalterand i want to live11:38
Diablo-D3they're just highly advanced natural language parsers11:38
esmereldakanzure: also if you could use something like radiation instead..  the rock formations and rivers are pretty11:38
Diablo-D3using an incredibly huge database of knowledge11:38
kanzureHoushalter: i didn't say "you personally interested in acting to blow up the planet". you are clearly interested in AI blowing up the planet. so why not humans? this is absurdly hypocritical of you.11:38
kanzure"they are bad at it so far" applies to both humans and ai, anyway.11:39
esmereldaThe kolgomorov complexity of this conversation is rather low11:39
kanzureesmerelda: perhaps you could clarify what you mean by boondoggies then...11:39
Houshalterkanzure, ok that was worded confusingly. but yes I agree humans could blow it up, but they don't want to. And even if we had a coordinated program to put a nuke in every city, there would still be survivors11:39
kanzureHoushalter: yeah i was thinking of doing a paper about the surprising difficulty of killing all humans. thankfully, blowing up the planet does not require killing all humans.11:40
esmereldakanzure: I read criticisms of the HBP by neuroscientists who claimed the hardware they were building was not necessarily well suited to meaningful simulation of a brain11:41
xentrac.g the energy cost of evaluating earth's human population kragen-tol11:41
yoleauxhttp://library.sandiegozoo.org/news/2015_news/2015_04cd.html11:41
Houshalternuclear war hasn't happened so far, and no one wants to start one. Even a nuclear war only destroys the countries involved, not the whole planet.11:41
xentrac.g the energy cost of evaluating earth's human population "kragen-tol"11:41
kanzureesmerelda: did you read the rebuttals by any chance?11:41
yoleauxNo results found.11:41
kanzurestop stealing that kragen guy's work, man11:41
esmereldaKanzure: no, only one article. I said that I thought it was a boondoggle, not that it is in fact a boondoggle.11:41
kanzureHoushalter: i think that nuclear blasts in cities would not be enough to blow up the planet11:42
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HoushalterI believe AI is by far the greatest risk to the world11:42
Diablo-D3sure thing Elon.11:42
esmereldaI meant to imply this was my default viewpoint given limited data, and I don't hold it strongly11:42
kanzureesmerelda: then i would suggest your current understanding is highly biased by detractors :-) it was a $1 billion project and a bunch of people were angry about not getting a slice of the pie.11:42
kanzureesmerelda: there's a bunch of interesting neurophysiology that markram's group incorporates into their work11:42
kanzureesmerelda: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/markram-2006/11:43
kanzurexentrac: what does "evaluating" mean here?11:43
esmereldaKanzure: this is interesting, thank you. I should probably use more clear language when discussing opinions I've heard but don't espouse strongly, to avoid misunderstanding11:44
kanzurethere was no misunderstanding afaik11:45
kanzureopencog, blue brain, then you mentioned you had read some criticism, something about boondoggies, then i gave you links or something11:45
kanzureoh, boondoggies came first11:46
kanzureyeah i didn't misunderstand that, i just mentioned there was good science in there somewhere11:46
esmereldaAhh OK. I thought you were talking about the totality of human existence11:47
kanzuregood science in human existence? perhaps :-)11:47
esmereldaHrm, I had a thought unrelated to all of this.11:47
kanzureesmerelda: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/11:48
esmereldaSay that we can store the data required to emulate a brain, but evaluation is very slow (E.g. 1 second per week)11:48
xentracum, evacuating11:48
xentrac.g the energy cost of evacuating earth's human population kragen-tol11:49
yoleauxhttps://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/11:49
xentrachttps://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00138.html11:49
kanzureoh that makes more sense11:49
esmereldaIf you put that on a satellite and shoved it out into space, it would not feel slowed down and thus feel probably pretty happy11:49
kanzureyes but it would have massive latency11:49
xentracthat describes how you can blow up the planet without killing any humans.  not that I think this is a good idea11:50
esmereldaSure, but maybe it's a hermit! Or you put 10 brains in there11:50
kanzureright, there might be value in having a somewhat working biosphere11:50
TMASometimes, I wonder whether we don't have a superintelligence already present. -- the world economy directs our decisions. moreover, in a sense, it has its own will, even though it is not an entity in the traditional sense11:50
kanzureTMA: no, please see http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/27/things-that-are-not-superintelligences/11:51
xentracthe economy, corporations, states, etc., are superhuman intelligences, but they are not superintelligences11:52
esmereldaKanzure: why do you want to blow up the world though?11:52
xentracthey are superhuman in other aspects like longevity and physical force, not in intelligence11:52
esmereldaGiven a collection of processors, I think a superintelligence must demonstrate that it makes decisions better than how good all the individual decisions of the processors are.11:54
kanzureblowing up the world would be simpler than tolerating the low-level crap that AdrianG and Diablo-D3 inflict upon me in here11:55
* esmerelda suggests /mute, or drugs11:55
kanzurewell i can also ban them11:55
* Diablo-D3 rolls eyes.11:56
esmereldaYou could make this channel a more complicated variant of #xkcd-signal11:57
Diablo-D3esmerelda: hows that work?11:57
esmereldaso that similar statements or lines of reasoning are detected and cause muting11:57
kanzureright, i would have to do that manually though11:57
kanzureand i would rather that people voluntarily don't suck at all11:57
kanzurexentrac: btw, evacuation is much easier if you assume working and useful brain scanning11:59
esmereldakanzure: if you trained an HMM on the chat logs here, and then for an input M computed the probability of producing M with the model12:01
kanzuretrain the model on all the blocked/banned/kicked users?12:01
esmereldaThen you divide that probability by the probability of producing any random sentence (mean probability)12:01
esmereldaSure, or even on all users if you want to avoid repeat topics12:01
kanzurerepeat topics are fine as long as users do due diligence or make an active effort to not be lame12:02
esmereldaThen you'll need a training set of lame sentences12:02
xentrackanzure: yeah, if you assume the brain emulation hardware is lighter or more robust to space conditions than human bodies12:03
xentracand I guess cheaper12:03
xentracright now it's much heavier, much more expensive, and significantly less robust12:04
xentracand Moore's Law, which we were counting on to fix that, has ended12:04
kanzurewell..... you could bury the emulation hardware, and then blow up the planet, and then recover the hardware?12:04
xentracwe'll probably come up with a different fix but it's historically contingent12:04
kanzurewe should bury satellites that get deployed when the planet inevitably breaks up12:05
esmereldaTake the simple case: say that Diablo-D3 says "AI is dangerous". Let P(AI, is) = 0.7, and P(is, dangerous) = 0.9 in the model. Then he had a 0.63 probability of saying that statement. Then say that the probability is 0.1 for an average user, that a second model was trained against12:05
xentracwhat, when the sun cooks it?12:05
kanzurewell perhaps something happens sooner12:05
kanzuremaybe12:05
Diablo-D3esmerelda: I wasn't the one saying it was dangerous though12:05
Diablo-D3I was agreeing with kanzure that the article is trash and its wasting people's time12:05
esmereldaI'm talking about signal detection12:05
xentrachere's a sample non-stupid statement from Diablo-D3: 19:32 < Diablo-D3> Houshalter: okay so, I once wrote a bitcoin miner, it ended up becoming the world's most popular miner for gpus.12:05
kanzurewhat, cgminer?12:06
xentrachere's a stupid thing: 19:33 < Diablo-D3> I suspect more computation power is being spent on bitcoin than anything else.12:06
xentracdunno, you'd have to ask him12:06
Diablo-D3kanzure: cgminer is a port of diablominer to C, with later added fpga and asic support12:07
esmereldaRight, xentrac. But the system would compare the conditional probability of each transition given that Diablo-D3 said it, vs. the average probability over all users12:07
esmereldaThat tells you how "Diablo" a statement is12:07
Diablo-D3ck undertook porting it to C to make fpga and asic support possible12:07
esmereldaSo the system wouldn't flag "Hi", but it would flag "bitcoin miner" (problematic)12:08
xentracbut the bitcoin miner statement was actually a point in Diablo-D3's favor12:08
esmereldaYeah. I was just interested to see if I could design a system to censor certain topics or views12:09
xentracthat shouldn't be too hard12:09
esmereldaDiablo was just a hapless example (sorry, man!)12:09
esmereldaxentrac: without much human intervention? Clearly you and I should make a startup for this12:09
xentracunfortunately a system to censor stupid or content-free statements about a topic but not insightful ones is much more difficult, probably AI-hard12:09
Houshalteresmerelda, that just rules out all short sentences12:09
xentracHoushalter: that in itself sounds like a good idea12:10
Houshalterhow do you answer a yes or no question?12:10
esmereldaP(yes|Diablo)/P(yes) ~= 112:10
esmereldaSo it wouldn't be censored12:11
Diablo-D3Okay so, what is considered the largest use of computational power of a single project?12:11
esmereldaYou know, maybe I should just go build this thing. It seems simple and fun12:11
kanzureprobably a hydrodam would count as a computation12:11
kanzure*would qualify12:12
Diablo-D3current hashrate is 9862 exaflops12:12
Diablo-D39,862,475 petaflops, folding@home hit 25 petaflops in sep 201512:14
xentracDiablo-D3: maybe the black hole at the galactic core?12:15
Diablo-D3so what other projects out there can be measured at single digit zettaflops12:16
xentracHoushalter: you could say something more interesting than "yes" in response, although as esmerelda is pointing out, that wasn't actually what she was suggesting12:16
Diablo-D3xentrac: thats not a computation project though =P12:17
xentracthe #xkcd-whatever channel does in fact ban responses like "yes"12:18
esmereldaYeah. My system is different though12:18
xentracDiablo-D3: just because you don't understand what it's computing doesn't mean it's not computation.  most people don't understand what their remote control is computing either12:18
xentracesmerelda: yes, I didn't mean to imply otherwise12:19
Diablo-D3xentrac: I don't know what its computing, but I do know its an i.MX12:19
xentracDiablo-D3: are you giving me the model number for the black hole at the galactic core? you are a very silly sentient being.12:20
Diablo-D3xentrac: sigh, no, my remote control.12:20
xentracmaybe you might get confused and think that your remote control is also not a computer, as you apparently think about the black hole and about kanzure's example of hydroelectric dams12:21
Diablo-D3xentrac: no, its very much a computer, it has a usb port and everything.12:22
xentracare you suggesting that the black hole at the galactic core is primarily lacking a USB port for you to recognize it as a computer?12:23
kanzureoops it's not called a hydrodam is it12:23
kanzurexentrac: to be fair, lots of bitcoin mining equipment is also lacking usb ports12:23
Diablo-D3I'm not sure how either of those are answers to the question "what computing project uses the most power, or is in the range of single digit zettaflops"12:23
xentrackanzure: btw I had an interesting chat with Vinay on the tweeter the other night.  i tweet little enough that you should be able to find it easily12:23
kanzurevinay gupta?12:23
xentracnatch12:24
kanzurenotch??12:24
xentracnaturally12:24
xentracit will probably infuriate you12:24
kanzuremost things tend to do that12:24
xentracyes, that's why I said that12:24
kanzurei am mobile at the moment adn can't go searching. maybe later.12:24
xentracone of the disadvantages of amphetamine12:24
xentracDiablo-D3: well, that black hole is certainly computing a lot more than a measly few zetaflops12:24
kanzureeven if amphetamines do cause infuriation, i think it's wrong of you to assume it's the sole source of my infuriation. perhaps i am a naturally prone to finding exellent reasons to be absolutely unfuriated by mundane bullshit12:25
Diablo-D3xentrac: but its not computing anything, its not a computer12:25
kanzure*excellent12:25
kanzure+?12:25
kanzure*infuriated12:26
kanzuremobile typing sucks12:26
kanzureDiablo-D3: perhaps you should look into what computation happens to be :-)12:26
Diablo-D3"A computation can be seen as a purely physical phenomenon occurring inside a closedÊphysical systemÊcalled aÊcomputer. Examples of such physical systems includeÊdigital computers,Êmechanical computers,Êquantum computers,ÊDNA computers,Êmolecular computers,Êanalog computersÊorÊwetware computers. This point of view is the one adopted by the branch of theoretical physics called theÊphysics of computation."12:27
Diablo-D3How the hell did that paste like that.12:27
* Diablo-D3 stares at both chrome and his irc client12:27
xentrackanzure: you are of course correct, and I didn't mean to imply it was the *sole* source of your infuriation12:27
kanzurexentrac: what is the name of the physicist that i am thinking of? his name starts with an s and he has a wildly famous paper about computation and physics.12:28
kanzurehis name has an L in it somewhere12:28
xentracrelated to feynman, landauer, dyson?12:28
kanzureoh probably, who isn't?12:28
xentraccomputation and physics is a very broad field12:29
kanzureperhaps i should work on remembering authors other than by the initial letters of their names......12:29
kanzurehmm maybe this is more of an nsh paper than a xentrac paper, although i would be surprised if it turns out you have never seen this12:31
kanzurehe is somehow related to d'hoof't for some reason12:31
nshwhat are those space-invaders blockshapes for visual recognition of username/number hashes?12:31
nshmaybe all the sciencepals should have one of them each12:32
xentracthen you could draw it to look them up?12:32
kanzuregerald sussman12:34
kanzurehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-015-0662-612:35
kanzurethis is not the article i'm thinking of, but it's close enough12:35
kanzureoh fooey12:35
kanzurethat's not it.... grr.12:36
kanzurehttp://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/438912:36
kanzure.title12:36
yoleaux"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" by Gerald Sussman | Lambda the Ultimate12:36
kanzuredunno why i had so many apostraphes in d'hooft's name12:38
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kanzureyesss maybe eudoxia will avenge me. surely he knows which sussman paper i'm talking about?12:39
eudoxialet me read the logs12:39
eudoxiakanzure: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, although it's a book12:40
eudoxiayou might be thinking of functional differential geometry which is related to the topic12:40
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xentracthat's not really about the physical phenomenon of computation12:41
kanzureno not that book12:41
xentracit's more about formalizing Lagrangian classsical physics algorithmically12:41
kanzurecome on he probably worked on lisp machine this is straight up your ally, eudoxia....12:41
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xentracas it happens, classical physics has nothing interesting to say about computation12:42
eudoxiai interpreted "computation and physics" as "computational physics"12:42
xentracDiablo-D3: it's not clear to me what chain of misguided character encodings turned non-breaking spaces into Ê12:43
eudoxiahttp://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/amorphous/papers/aim1665.pdf ?12:43
kanzurethat's an interesting paper, but the one i'm thinking about is much more general and probably older12:46
Diablo-D3xentrac: yeah, I can't figure out why that did that12:46
kanzurei am probably thinking of an essay, not a paper12:47
kanzureand also, there was at most two authors, probably only one12:47
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eudoxiaftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1000-1499/AIM-1039.ps has two authors12:49
eudoxiaoh here it is probably http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/cellgates/cellgates.pdf12:50
xentracthat isn't about physics12:51
kanzurenope, sorry, wrong one12:52
kanzurealso funny to see tom knight12:52
eudoxiahmm12:53
eudoxiait's probably not sussman12:53
kanzurehow about "physicists that have a name starting with L and have published to arxiv or seem like they should have, and also wrote about computation and physics"?12:54
kanzurethe problem is that sussman is such a close match12:54
kanzurehow can it not be sussman?12:54
eudoxiaspecifically what was the paper about12:54
eudoxiahypothetical modes of computation?12:55
kanzureprinciples of computation apply to physics in general way12:55
eudoxiaahh12:55
eudoxia"atoms are bits, collisions are ops" sort of thing?12:55
kanzuremight have included hypothetical computation stuff, but was not main point i think12:55
kanzureyea something like that12:55
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kanzureand it was definitely absolutely not gershenfeld12:56
eudoxiahow about seth lloyd12:57
kanzurehey that has both the letters i wanted12:57
xentrachaha gershenfeld12:57
kanzuregershenfeld talks about the same concepts, but he wasn't the author12:57
xentracgershenfeld is awesome but I wouldn't expect him to publish papers on either physics or the fundamentals of computation, let alone both at once12:57
kanzurewell, i mean, he also doesn't focus on physics either12:57
kanzureindeed12:58
kanzureyes you have stated what i should have said, except much more elegantly12:58
xentrache's more a "let's hack stuff and get people involved" kinda guy12:58
xentracI ran into him by chance on the T platform12:58
kanzurehe's a twooter?12:58
xentrac?12:59
eudoxiafound it http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043.pdf12:59
kanzuretwitter tweeter12:59
xentracnot that I know of12:59
xentracI mean the platform where you wait to get on the train13:00
kanzureeudoxia: fucking awesome dude, thank you. amazing work.13:00
eudoxiayw kanz13:00
kanzurenow why wasn't this written by sussman? >:(13:00
xentracoh, yeah, I have seen this paper13:01
kanzurehaha13:01
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xentrachttps://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2874238 says we need to totally rearchitect our computer systems in order to take advantage of how fast Flash is now13:02
xentracbecause Flash is a thousand times faster at random access than spinning rust, but only five or seven times faster at running MySQL13:03
kanzure think seth lloyd has a slightly different version of this paper somewhere, where he talks about the general aspects of computation and physics, not just the ultimate limits of computation13:03
kanzure*i thnk13:04
kanzure.title http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/011014113:05
yoleaux[quant-ph/0110141] Computational capacity of the universe13:05
kanzure"Is the universe roughly-tuned for computing?" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01754.pdf13:07
kanzure"Uncomputability and physical law" http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.445613:08
kanzureoh weird, i should have guessed tegmark. i definitely didn't mean tegmark, but he wouldn't be a bad place to start from.13:14
kanzureor john smart, for that matter....13:15
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xentrachttp://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ may be interesting to you, kanzure, particularly with regard to the "why are you being so rude to me?" comments you get.  although you don't get to claim to not be playing pecking-order games :)13:38
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kanzurexentrac: you mean, for explaining to others how it is rude to inject low-quality shit into this channel? not sure this is a good link for that.13:41
kanzureas for pecking order, perhaps you mean moderating13:42
kanzurethis article got very weird in a way that i would only expect to find on autistics.org13:45
kanzure(i mean autistics.org quite literally, it has a good library of stuffs)13:45
pompolicaround which part?13:46
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xentrackanzure: moderation is one possible application of social dominance hierarchies13:47
kanzurealso i think this article ends poorly. it fails to point out that the social status game is much cheaper to play, and the other one is more difficult and requires more effort, which is a useful explanation for why it's not a universal default.13:50
kanzurealso, to be fair, "randos bringing up random additional factual correctness statements" is in fact somewhat socially maladjusted (for the most part, social agreement throughout history was based on leadership and individuals and cooperation, not about abstract ideation), so it makes sense for people to be socially accustomed to dismissing inline email replies (which while not explicitly stated in the article, i'm fairly certain the ...13:51
kanzure... article's author would agree is a relevant topical example).13:51
kanzurealso i think that kindness should be extended to potential apprentices or learners who show some kind of promise, but there is very low utility in fixing e.g. all of AdrianG's broken beliefs.13:53
maakuKick people that are disruptive, ban them if they make a big deal out of it13:56
kanzurei used to think that i could convince people into becoming high ability (because it seemed to work on a number of occassions) but looking back perhaps i was just talking with young people (i was also young at the time) who hadn't yet bothered to check if they were high-ability.13:56
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maakuIt really is rare that you can teach an old dog new tricks.14:00
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kanzuresounds too pessimistic for my taste. have you tried spiking the dog's water with amphetamines?14:01
xentracYeah, I don't think you can convince people of much of anything by talking to them, let alone support them in a rigorous and grueling program of mentally empowering themselves.14:02
kanzurei'm... pretty sure i did that in the past. long before this channel existed.14:02
kanzurei wish i would have collected more evidence or measurements or something14:02
xentracYou really need some kind of cult or something, like the 1980s BBS scene, MIT, or Aum Shinri Kyo14:02
kanzurei mean, what about brainwashing and religious indoctrination?14:03
xentracYeah, those totally work14:03
kanzureah good.14:03
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xentracAlthough they have their own failure modes at a social level14:03
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xentracBut they're very different from just talking to people14:03
maakuOh stubborn people are capable of learning. They just don't want to.14:03
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xentracYeah, people do mostly what they want to do14:04
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archels.g when does a physical system compute14:11
yoleauxhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1309.797914:11
archelsdidn't Anders write a bit about the physical limits of computation as well?14:11
maakuYoung people are looking for something to do with their lives. They have an itch, a desire to do something important. You just insert your own vision like an ointment and they'll latch on.14:12
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maakuI think tengmark as well.14:12
maakuI need to improve my own productivity before acquiring minions however...14:15
kanzurewell, i wasn't looking for an article about limits to computation14:16
kanzureanders did write an article on that subject, yes14:16
kanzure"When does a physical system compute?" is not what i was thinking of, but yes this looks highly relevant14:16
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archelsa black hole probably doesn't compute if it's just sitting there, being chaotic and complex14:19
kanzureanders sandberg's paper is http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/The%20physics%20of%20information%20processing%20superobjects%20-%20Anders%20Sandberg.pdf14:19
archelsif it's at a sort of criticality, things might begin to get interesting, but that just as an aside ;)14:19
kanzureand he cites seth lloyd, but only the papers on limitations of physical computation14:19
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kanzurehm his bibliography is nice14:20
kanzurei definitely saw seth lloyd's "Ultimate physical limits to computation" paper because i had a copy here http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/Ultimate%20physical%20limits%20to%20computation.pdf14:21
kanzure... and the "Amorphous computing" paper, http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/Amorphous%20computing.pdf14:22
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/Computational%20analysis%20of%20galactic%20exploration%20with%20space%20probes%20-%20implications%20for%20the%20Fermi%20paradox.pdf14:22
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kanzure"NP-complete problems and physical reality" http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/NP-complete%20problems%20and%20physical%20reality%20-%20Scott%20Aaronson.pdf14:24
kanzurethis is clearly not the paper i was thinking of, but highly topical still.14:24
kanzure"On the maximal quantity of processed information in the physical eschatological context" http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/On%20the%20maximal%20quantity%20of%20processed%20information%20in%20the%20physical%20eschatological%20context.pdf14:25
kanzurecc nsh14:25
kanzurexentrac: seth lloyd cites neil gershenfeld in his 2000 paper on ultimate limits. heh.14:27
nshmore interesting than the physical limits of computation is perhaps the computational limits of physics14:29
nshwhere some actual progress is being made14:29
nshscott aaronson has followed some of this recently14:29
nshin a few talks14:29
nshthe gradual conquest of all sciences by theoretical computer science has a long way to go yet14:30
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kanzures/conquest of all sciences/conquest of everything14:33
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xentrackanzure: really? Maybe Neal's got a history I don't know about16:10
kanzurewell, i mean, mit media lab people have a sneaky way of going about stuff, they tend to show up everywhere16:11
kanzuredocl: i found this in my paper archive, http://www.bnglifecasting.com/diy/chamber/16:30
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kanzureprompted by archels, i have cleaned up some of the directory structure of my collection and also here's an index http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/index.2016-01-06.txt16:47
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nmz787_isup16:56
kanzure8448 papers16:56
kanzurethat's only 2 per day?16:57
kanzuresomehow i suspect that this is not anywhere near a reasonable limit of scientific input16:58
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xentracyeah, you can probably only read one or two a week16:59
kanzurei was thinking more than 2/day16:59
kanzurei don't think the goal should be to memorize every single mundane detail of every paper, so it seems sensible to not optimize for that16:59
kanzurewondering if a "review of everything i have read in the past ~year" would be a productive thing to write17:00
kanzurexentrac for one of your crazy hackdays project things would you consider stuff like "things to help kanzure do better pdf management of his collection" (like pdfparanoia similar stuff?), or even "things to help kanzure when he manually reads all the hplusroadmap irc logs sometime soon"?17:01
streetyis PVC the way to go for vacuum chambers? I was under the impression it had a tendency to violently fail17:06
streetyalthough that might have only applied to overpressure17:06
nmz787_iPVC is very strudy17:06
nmz787_ivacuum is not very stressfull17:06
nmz787_ithe max pressure differential you will ever have at sea level is 15 PSI17:07
superkuhFine for casting stuff and the like. But for actual physics stuff the outgassing would probably be horrible.17:07
nmz787_ithis is much much less than say, using PVC for a potato cannon17:07
xentrac01:00 < kanzure> wondering if a "review of everything i have read in the past ~year" would be a productive thing to write17:07
nmz787_iwhat superkuh said17:07
xentracYES YES YES YES YES17:07
xentracactually even the past week would be useful17:08
nmz787_iso I'm not sure why I wanted to do a slicer in BRLCAD, when I already know how to export my models as STL, which slicers exist for (though I don't know how well they work to generate g-code for a laser)17:09
kanzurerecurrent neural network effectiveness http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/17:09
kanzurefor some reason i have http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ in my head as "most interesting explanation of recurrent neural network stuff" but i don't know if this is true17:09
nmz787_ibut I made decent progress last night, implemented getting a bounding box for objects, and returning opposite points on the box17:09
xentracnmz787_i: also writing a slicer from STL is super easy17:09
xentrackanzure: my notes are17:10
nmz787_iI can only surmise that I had some idea that the STL to g-code would be sloppy or something17:10
xentraclinks from 2015-08-15:17:10
xentrachttp://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent #Neural-Networks” for #image-recognition, #NLP language modeling (producing what looks an awful lot like Markov-chain text with slightly better context-free properties), sequential processing for directing attention over an image, etc.  Lots of animations and visualizations of RNNs doing their thing.  The models are written in #Lua with so17:10
nmz787_ithough, slicing in BRLCAD, then exporting an STL of that slice, and generating G-code for a single slice might be nicer in some way17:10
kanzureenkiv2: i think you have cutoff syndrome ("Lua with so"17:11
kanzure)17:11
xentracwell, the STL step does inevitably convert curves into straight lines17:11
kanzure.... i mean xentrac, not enkiv2.17:11
xentracin #Lua with something called “Torch 7” and run with #GPGPU.  Lots of great comments!  "unreasonable RNNs"17:11
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xentracrelated:17:11
xentrachttps://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn “Multi-layer recurrent #neural-networks (LSTM, GRU, RNN) for character-level language models in Torch” in #Lua, which generate pretty spectacular random text.  This is (some of) the code for #unreasonable-RNNs.17:11
kanzurek well it says it's unreasonable, so i guess that means it's a dead end17:11
xentrachttps://gist.github.com/karpathy/d4dee566867f8291f086 A hundred-line example of recurrent #neural-networks for text generation, by the author of #unreasonable-RNNs.17:11
nmz787_isince layers in photolithography need a spin-coat cycle... which in g-code would probably just be a "change Z" command17:11
xentracnmz787_i: you might have some M code to set the spin-coating parameters17:12
kanzure"STL to gcode" er... CAM should not be direct translation.17:13
kanzurekinematics often plays a role17:13
xentracyeah, that's what I said yesterday17:13
xentracalthough laser cutters in particular are almost immune to kinematic concerns17:13
kanzurebtw fenn is our resident linuxcnc kinematics monkey, he wrote some sort of inexplicably-high-dof kinematic solver for linuxcnc17:13
xentracand 3-D printers very commonly "cheat" so that you don't have to specify limited-absolute-jerk motion curves in your G-code17:14
xentracbut usually laser cutters use HP-PCL with embedded HPGL apparently17:15
xentracbut I think nmz787_i built his own or something?17:15
xentracthe best documentation I've found about COTS ones is this17:16
xentrachttp://hci.rwth-aachen.de/materials/publications/oster2011a.pdf Thomas Oster’s bachelor’s #pdf #dissertation on the VisiCut #laser-cutter software.  Mentions he got about an inch per second at 500dpi out of the Epilog Zing cutter he was using, or 8 inches per second with the laser off, and documents the HP-PCL, PJL, HPGL, and LPD interface of the machine in some detail.17:16
kanzurea dissertation about proprietary laser cutter software...?17:16
xentracno, it's about the software he wrote, which was a printer driver for his laser cutter17:17
kanzurethis sounds less awful17:17
xentracI don't understand how writing a printer driver merits a bachelor's degree but I guess most bachelor's degrees don't require any kind of thesis17:18
xentracit's free software but it's kind of specific17:18
kanzureyes i think bachelor thesis standards are more nebulous17:18
xentracI'm starting to get nostalgic for HPGL17:18
xentracsomebody please help me17:18
kanzureimagine you're in a world where people don't produce closed-access firmware, and you can program all the laser cutters to your heart's content17:19
kanzuredoes that help?17:19
nmz787_ixentrac: no I bought it, but it uses GRBL firmware17:19
nmz787_iI guess G-code is a type of b-rep?17:20
nmz787_iif it uses arcs17:20
xentracnot really17:21
xentracit doesn't describe solid shapes at all17:21
xentracit describes toolpaths17:21
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xentracSTL is a type of b-rep17:21
xentracthe solid shapes you get out will depend on things like (classically) your cutting tool shape, size, and momentum17:22
kanzuretriangles are a very limited subset of all possible b-reps :P17:22
xentracyes17:22
xentracI mean "the solid shapes you get out of a given piece of G-code will depend on things like (classically) your cutting tool shape, size, and momentum"17:23
xentracalso there are often considerations in generating the G-code other than the shape of the resulting object17:23
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xentracsurface finish, other aspects of tolerances that aren't just surface finish, heat-affected zones, that kind of thing17:24
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kanzurewhen i first learned about "c-to-asic" stuff in uh i guess 2004, i wanted something like a c-to-shitty-neural-network generator. do we have that yet?17:27
kanzureactually i would be partly satisfied by just arbitrary-math-function, maybe even with a constraint about no discontinuities, instead of arbitrary c source code input17:29
xentracI haven't heard of one17:34
esmereldaHrm, interesting17:38
esmereldaI wonder if you could do it with rewrite rules17:38
esmereldaYou can compute any continuous function with a three-layer ANN right?17:39
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kanzurerecurrent neural network stuff http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/17:53
kanzureand http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/17:53
kanzureand http://www.rnnlm.org/17:53
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nmz787xentrac: so it sounds like you're proclaiming to represent boundaries, the representation needs to be 3D?18:48
nmz787I don't see why g-code is seen not to represent boundaries18:49
nmz787i guess I get what you mean about optimizing g-code for physical transfer18:50
nmz787we do that with lithography too, and that sort of thing is something I will probably have to consider at some point18:50
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nmz787but I am not sure I'd want to modify the g-code itself, rather I might just morph the solid model, and use the same g-code generator as before18:52
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xentracG-code doesn't say where to put the boundary; it says where to put the tool18:58
nmz787yeah but that is reflective of the boundary18:59
xentracand how fast to move it, what temperature to heat it to, when to turn cutting fluid on and off, all that stuff18:59
xentracyes, but the boundary is not in the same place as the tool18:59
xentracoften it's nowhere near it in fact18:59
kanzure"The mad man behind aprilzero.com uses a non-monospace font on a light background last time I checked. What an animal."18:59
nmz787hmm, for a laser causing coagulation it seems like they'd be the same18:59
xentracthe coagulation still has a minimal line width19:00
xentracbut I agree that for a laser it's going to be much closer than for FDM or milling or whatever19:00
xentracwhether you're cutting or hardening19:00
xentracprobably — and I'm guessing a bit here — at least 100μm difference19:01
xentracwhich is enough to make the difference between "parts fit together tightly" and "parts have play and fall apart when the assembly is turned upside down"19:01
xentracor between "parts fit together snugly" and "assembly is impossible"19:02
xentracfor most materials anyway19:02
xentracand you also likely want to cause coagulation inside the shape you're trying to make, not just at the boundary19:02
xentracmaybe in some kind of topopt-generated or crosshatched pattern19:02
nmz787actually I've been thinking that the laser would define the entire object, the width being controlled by focusing/defocusing the beam spot19:04
nmz787but yeah there could be some cross-hatching to do at some point19:05
xentracso that's almost more like a raster representation than a boundary representation19:05
nmz787also depends on the device i want to make19:05
nmz787well except that I want vector paths, not some flyback raster output19:06
kanzure"Long short-term memory: a tutorial on LSTM recurrent networks" http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/lstm/19:06
xentracnmz787: did you see the Laser Origami paper?  I can't try this myself19:17
xentrachttp://stefaniemueller.org/laserorigami-lasercutting-3d-objects/ #laser-cutter #manufacturing of non-planar #3D objects by softening acrylic with the defocused laser, allowing gravity to pull it into shape.  Got Best #Paper in CHI 201319:17
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kanzurehttp://www.nervanasys.com/demystifying-deep-reinforcement-learning/19:24
kanzurehttps://github.com/google/prettytensor (for tensorflow)19:24
kanzurehttps://github.com/samjabrahams/tensorflow-white-pages-notes19:26
kanzurearchels: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3x2ueg/nips_2015_overviews_collection/19:26
kanzurehttp://www.johnglover.net/blog/generating-sound-with-rnns.html19:27
kanzurehttps://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-rnn19:30
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kanzure"Visualizing and understanding recurrent networks" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02078.pdf19:33
kanzure"Soft materials in neuroengineering for hard problems in neuroscience" http://rogers.matse.illinois.edu/files/2015/neuronreview.pdf19:45
kanzurethat is a cool review.19:45
kanzure"neural dust" concept (10-100 micron free-roaming neural sensors) gets remote power transmission over ultrasound "19:50
kanzure"Ultrasonic beamforming system for interrogating multiple implantable sensors" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=731894219:50
kanzureneural dust concept was http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.2196.pdf19:51
kanzurefurther "neural dust" follow-up, "Model validation of untethered, ultrasonic neural dust motes for cortical recording" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016502701400284219:52
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kanzure"pHflourins are pH sensitive fluorescent proteins used as genetically encoded reporters to measure synaptic release. pHfluorins can be targeted to synaptic vesicles by fusing pHflourin to synaptic vesicle proteins such as SNARE, synaptophysin, and the vesicular glutamate transporter. The acidic environments inside synaptic vesicles quench fluorescence while exocytosis exposes the lumen of the vesicle to neutral pH,which reduces quenching ...20:06
kanzure... and increasing fluorescence 66. The development of mOrange2-pHluorins tagged to VGLUT1 together with a green calcium reporter GCaMP3 fused with synaptophysin-GaMP3 (SyGCaMP3) permits analysis of vesicle release with calcium concentration at the same synapse 67. In addition, glutamate-sensitive fluorescent reporters have also been developed to visualize the release and diffusion of glutamate at the synapse 68."20:06
kanzurefrom "Molecular neuroanatomy: A generation of progress" (2014) http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc394666620:07
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kanzurei was looking up what cited "Three controversial hypotheses concerning computation in the primate cortex" and now i am convinced that marblestone's entire bibliography is essentially "whatever kanzure had in papers2/neuro/"20:18
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nmz787xentrac: I feel like I saw something like that a while ago21:53
nmz787when I read your comment I first thought of micro/mini scale plastic transparency film, folding UP on it self21:54
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nmz787inkscape is not a good workflow for me21:55
* nmz787 is reading about XML namespaces :/21:56
nmz787all I wanted was to convert my SVG to g-code21:56
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