CompSci Weekend SuperThread (August 17, 2018) Computer Science |
- CompSci Weekend SuperThread (August 17, 2018)
- How do I visually describe data sizeTXT vs images and Video to my Mom?
- On natural selection of the laws of nature, Artificial life and Open-ended evolution, Universal Darwinism, Occam's razor
- Solving the mystery behind Abstract Algorithm’s magical optimizations
- Collation of Distributed System Resources
| CompSci Weekend SuperThread (August 17, 2018) Posted: 16 Aug 2018 06:06 PM PDT /r/compsci strives to be the best online community for computer scientists. We moderate posts to keep things on topic. This Weekend SuperThread provides a discussion area for posts that might be off-topic normally. Anything Goes: post your questions, ideas, requests for help, musings, or whatever comes to mind as comments in this thread. Pointers
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| How do I visually describe data sizeTXT vs images and Video to my Mom? Posted: 17 Aug 2018 01:02 AM PDT I've searched fruitlessly for a diagram that explains the size of an email, a book or text to how big just a JPG is, or a and a Movie to my Mother. She got it when I sketched it on paper... sort of. But I cannot find a good diagram that I can just link to others. Google hath failed me. Somewhere, someone has to have a a diagram of this, no? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2018 06:22 AM PDT Greetings, I seek advice or any other help available regarding creating a specific mathematical model. It's origin is at the intersection of the following areas:
The problem I'm trying to solve can be described as to create the simplest model possible in which the evolution of the laws of nature arises from the natural selection of structures. This approach implies indeterminism and postulates random and spontaneous nature of some events. It is also assumed that the universe had the beginning (the first moment of existence). This task is meant to provide the tychism doctrine by Charles Peirce with a mathematically accurate dynamic model. The mathematical model is intended to describe the process of changing of a discrete structure (like graph, consisting of interconnected atomic parts). Moreover, it should be the process of development and complication of the structure (it should be capable of producing even complex "intelligent" agents after some presumably great time). And this discrete structure is a medium on which the natural selection works on (there can be selected individuals and environment, natural selection postulates hold). The idea is attractive because it assumes that the beginning of the Universe was simple and self-justifying and can be described by the mathematical model that is obvious in the retrospective: just like Darwin's idea of evolution and natural selection: they are obvious, but until they were formulated it was really hard to assume them. This research program is a special case of the Artificial life / Open-ended evolution problem (OEE) that has extra constraints that come from metaphysics (I also hope they may help to solve OEE problem). P.S. (on computability) The only connection to computability is that individuals in the model to build presumably should incorporate recursive algorithms that change the environment (that is presumably the other individuals). I tried to imagine lambda functions or primitive recursive functions as basic ontological atoms (to incorporate to graph-like space) but failed miserably. UPD The whole article is a description of the research program aimed to create an atrificial universe in which we can answer any questions like "why is the present is this way not another?" (it's a better formulated ancient question "Why is there something rather than nothing?"). And this universe formulation should be enough simple and self-justifying to be a candidate for model of the our real universe. And there are two main intuitions-constraints for this universe: 1) the start from the simple enough state (the beggining of time), 2) the complexity capable of producing sentient beings (after enormous simulation time of cource) comes from natural selection. And natural selection postulates hold in the universe formulation. Both these intuitions give hope that the model to build would be simple and obvious in retrospect like postulates of natural selection are simple and obvious in retrospect. So there is a hope that it's feasible task. The "only" thing is left is to precisely define what are individuals and environment in the model (environment should be other individuals presumably - again from simplicity considerations) and how the process of their replication and death takes place. At the moment I'm not even sure if the individuals should be bult-in or to be emergent... (but I lean to the first option). And sadly I have not moved far to this goal. I'm still in the situation of "I feel like the answer the this grand question can be obtained this particular way". ... There is the article with complete description of the research problem: https://kiwi0fruit.github.io/ultimate-question GitHub repository of the article: https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/ultimate-question [link] [comments]  |
| Solving the mystery behind Abstract Algorithm’s magical optimizations Posted: 17 Aug 2018 02:26 AM PDT |
| Collation of Distributed System Resources Posted: 16 Aug 2018 11:10 PM PDT |
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