Hacker News with Generative AI: Computation

Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed (popularmechanics.com)
A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process information up to a billion times faster than typical biochemical processes.

Biology, Science, Computation, Theoretical Physics

22 points by virtualritz 6 days ago | 16 comments

Solving Fine Grained Authorization with Incremental Computation (feldera.com)
If you've been following the security space, you've likely noticed the rise of Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) access control models.

Security, Authorization, Access Control, Computation

13 points by gz09 113 days ago | 4 comments

Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra (robotics.umich.edu)
Computational Linear Algebra is a pilot first-semester, first-year undergraduate course that will show how mathematics and computation are unified for reasoning about data and making discoveries about the world.

Robotics, Education, Linear Algebra, Mathematics, Computation

296 points by jamesliudotcc 121 days ago | 73 comments

Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace (github.com/huggingface)
One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.

Open source, Machine Learning, Inference, Computation, HuggingFace

88 points by burningion 144 days ago | 26 comments

Tree Calculus (treecalcul.us)
Tree Calculus captures the essence of computation

Mathematics, Computation, Programming, Theory, Software

493 points by iamwil 150 days ago | 194 comments

Problem-solving matter: Is life a complex computational process? (aeon.co)
This problem-solving perspective is radically altering our knowledge of the Universe. Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process.

Philosophy, Science, Computation, Life

4 points by debo_ 230 days ago | 1 comments

Is life a complex computational process? Essays (aeon.co)
This problem-solving perspective is radically altering our knowledge of the Universe. Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process.

Philosophy, Science, Computation, Biology

9 points by rbanffy 234 days ago | 0 comments

In the beginning, there was computation (nautil.us)

Science, History, Computation

63 points by yarapavan 249 days ago | 94 comments

Scientists demonstrate chemical reservoir computation using the formose reaction (phys.org)

Chemistry, Science, Computation

6 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 296 days ago | 1 comments

Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits (storagereview.com)

Mathematics, Records, Computation

153 points by radicality 301 days ago | 280 comments

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits (quantamagazine.org)