like The Difference Engine is a very fun book if you like alternate histories of computation
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
like The Difference Engine is a very fun book if you like alternate histories of computation
You are confusing rules and mechanics as a whole with computational processes. Yes, computer games are better at computation. That's also why there's almost all TTRPG rules have player agency at least in either input or output
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
You are confusing rules and mechanics as a whole with computational processes. Yes, computer games are better at computation. That's also why there's almost all TTRPG rules have player agency at least in either input or output
May Institute on Computation & Statistics for MS and Proteomics is taking great shape. Fantastic new and repeat instructors and lots of new content. We are grateful to our sponsors Fragmatics and Biognosys. Keep an eye on the website computationalproteomics.khoury.northeastern.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
May Institute on Computation & Statistics for MS and Proteomics is taking great shape. Fantastic new and repeat instructors and lots of new content. We are grateful to our sponsors Fragmatics and Biognosys. Keep an eye on the website computationalproteomics.khoury.northeastern.edu
Super proud to be part of the EU Horizon proposal Social-PETs. It aims to bring privacy-enhancing tech (PETs) like homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation to open social networks such as #ATProto, making powerful recommender systems possible without centralised data.
Project Proposal - Social-PETs.EU | Notion
🇪🇺 EU Horizon Call: Privacy Enhancing Technologies
social-pets.notion.site
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Super proud to be part of the EU Horizon proposal Social-PETs. It aims to bring privacy-enhancing tech (PETs) like homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation to open social networks such as #ATProto, making powerful recommender systems possible without centralised data.
Demand for subsea cables is increasing as tech giants race to develop computation-intensive artificial intelligence models and connect their growing networks of data centers. - via @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/b...
Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.
www.cnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Demand for subsea cables is increasing as tech giants race to develop computation-intensive artificial intelligence models and connect their growing networks of data centers. - via @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/b...
"Look at all the concept art variations that we generated! It took our unpaid intern while minutes of computation time guys."
There is no artist on the planet RN that would manually make something with all that AI glossiness, because of the context. Brazen crooks.
There is no artist on the planet RN that would manually make something with all that AI glossiness, because of the context. Brazen crooks.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Look at all the concept art variations that we generated! It took our unpaid intern while minutes of computation time guys."
There is no artist on the planet RN that would manually make something with all that AI glossiness, because of the context. Brazen crooks.
There is no artist on the planet RN that would manually make something with all that AI glossiness, because of the context. Brazen crooks.
g-computation? g-estimation? g-formula? g-arbage names!
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
g-computation? g-estimation? g-formula? g-arbage names!
the human brain is a floating-point, not integral, numeric computation engine
something i've been thinking about a lot over the past several years is how money "loses resolution" at such high values
i think it started in 2008 when i was reading about fed bankers trying to figure out how much QE should be and they were operating in quarter-trillion increments
i think it started in 2008 when i was reading about fed bankers trying to figure out how much QE should be and they were operating in quarter-trillion increments
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
the human brain is a floating-point, not integral, numeric computation engine
Yes that's exactly it. "We played well" takes repetitions (and computation time) to get incorporated while "but we lost" counts right away.
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yes that's exactly it. "We played well" takes repetitions (and computation time) to get incorporated while "but we lost" counts right away.
Which brings to mind this essay I wrote several years ago. The argument: Star Trek, a pop sci-fi series, presented, decades ago, a more sensible view of advanced computation than the nonsense we contend with today: monroelab.com/2021/09/20/s...
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Which brings to mind this essay I wrote several years ago. The argument: Star Trek, a pop sci-fi series, presented, decades ago, a more sensible view of advanced computation than the nonsense we contend with today: monroelab.com/2021/09/20/s...
In a post-quantum environment, the biggest threat is static trust material. I. E. anything that can be recorded now and broken later once large-scale quantum computation arrives.
A continuously advancing authentication ratchet dodges that entire risk surface.
Sarcasm aside, it's interesting.
A continuously advancing authentication ratchet dodges that entire risk surface.
Sarcasm aside, it's interesting.
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In a post-quantum environment, the biggest threat is static trust material. I. E. anything that can be recorded now and broken later once large-scale quantum computation arrives.
A continuously advancing authentication ratchet dodges that entire risk surface.
Sarcasm aside, it's interesting.
A continuously advancing authentication ratchet dodges that entire risk surface.
Sarcasm aside, it's interesting.
For Japanese speakers this comes out as "Chikyuu kagaku teki keisan houhou" which is admittedly easier to pronounce even if it does sound a bit silly
Though 地球科学的な計算方法 would mean "geoscientific computation methods" in Japanese too!
Though 地球科学的な計算方法 would mean "geoscientific computation methods" in Japanese too!
Needed a more compact language than English to make the sign work.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For Japanese speakers this comes out as "Chikyuu kagaku teki keisan houhou" which is admittedly easier to pronounce even if it does sound a bit silly
Though 地球科学的な計算方法 would mean "geoscientific computation methods" in Japanese too!
Though 地球科学的な計算方法 would mean "geoscientific computation methods" in Japanese too!
Computation+Journalism 2025 is a month away (December 11-12); we're finishing the last details of the symposium: cplusj2025.com Here's the full agenda: cplusj2025.com/agenda/ Join us! You can register here ($150 for professionals, $30 for students): events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Computation+Journalism 2025 is a month away (December 11-12); we're finishing the last details of the symposium: cplusj2025.com Here's the full agenda: cplusj2025.com/agenda/ Join us! You can register here ($150 for professionals, $30 for students): events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...
Applications for the PhD and MSc programs in statistics at UBC are now open!
📆 Deadline for PhD program is December 1st
📆 Deadline for MSc program is January 5th
The department covers all areas of statistics and we have a lot of momentum in Bayesian computation!
📆 Deadline for PhD program is December 1st
📆 Deadline for MSc program is January 5th
The department covers all areas of statistics and we have a lot of momentum in Bayesian computation!
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Applications for the PhD and MSc programs in statistics at UBC are now open!
📆 Deadline for PhD program is December 1st
📆 Deadline for MSc program is January 5th
The department covers all areas of statistics and we have a lot of momentum in Bayesian computation!
📆 Deadline for PhD program is December 1st
📆 Deadline for MSc program is January 5th
The department covers all areas of statistics and we have a lot of momentum in Bayesian computation!
Yes! The advantages are much clearer wrt neural computation (memory, expressivity, and gradient propagation) than for exploration per se.
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yes! The advantages are much clearer wrt neural computation (memory, expressivity, and gradient propagation) than for exploration per se.
Second optimization: find_bottom_point_octant
One advantage of having a shape we know in advance is that we pre-calculate stuff to speed up computation at runtime. [10/x]
One advantage of having a shape we know in advance is that we pre-calculate stuff to speed up computation at runtime. [10/x]
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Second optimization: find_bottom_point_octant
One advantage of having a shape we know in advance is that we pre-calculate stuff to speed up computation at runtime. [10/x]
One advantage of having a shape we know in advance is that we pre-calculate stuff to speed up computation at runtime. [10/x]
A new on-chip cryptographic protocol enables quantum computers to self-verify their results despite hardware noise, supporting secure and scalable quantum computation on current devices. doi.org/g992bm
On-chip cryptographic protocol lets quantum computers self-verify results amid hardware noise
Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization tasks and computations.
phys.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A new on-chip cryptographic protocol enables quantum computers to self-verify their results despite hardware noise, supporting secure and scalable quantum computation on current devices. doi.org/g992bm
Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)
leaflet.pub pages having RSS support is nice. means i can easily add them as feeds to my website
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
leaflet.pub pages having RSS support is nice. means i can easily add them as feeds to my website
Build better algorithms that don't require insane computation to brute force a transition matrix.
OR
Spend billions of dollars creating a low-orbit AI Space Station.
*sigh*
OR
Spend billions of dollars creating a low-orbit AI Space Station.
*sigh*
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Build better algorithms that don't require insane computation to brute force a transition matrix.
OR
Spend billions of dollars creating a low-orbit AI Space Station.
*sigh*
OR
Spend billions of dollars creating a low-orbit AI Space Station.
*sigh*
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ByteDance's Ouro (Open-weight)
A family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space, (ii) an entropy-regularized objective for learned depth allocation, and (iii) scaling to 7.7T tokens.
A family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space, (ii) an entropy-regularized objective for learned depth allocation, and (iii) scaling to 7.7T tokens.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
ByteDance's Ouro (Open-weight)
A family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space, (ii) an entropy-regularized objective for learned depth allocation, and (iii) scaling to 7.7T tokens.
A family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space, (ii) an entropy-regularized objective for learned depth allocation, and (iii) scaling to 7.7T tokens.
So much good stuff in here. I'm reading @bschmidt.bsky.social's piece on computational history: "The split in American digital history shows a way to make computation focus not on making the humanities more scientific but instead making them more creative."
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So much good stuff in here. I'm reading @bschmidt.bsky.social's piece on computational history: "The split in American digital history shows a way to make computation focus not on making the humanities more scientific but instead making them more creative."
Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present).
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present).