Readit NewsConsidering that even simple neural networks are universal approximators, and that most of the intelligent tasks require prediction of the next state(s) according to previous state, aren't biological or artificial brains "just" universal approximators of extremely complex function of the world?
I did recently also a tool for prime numbers visualization:
https://ilmenit.github.io/prime-fold/
It's not only for visualization but also discovering of mathematical functions that generate or embed prime numbers using evolutionary algorithms and fitness functions. It has two modes:
PrimeFold Mode (2D Embedding): Enter or evolve two functions, f_x(n) and f_y(n), to map numbers to 2D points. Primes and composites are visualized differently. This mode helps you discover spatial patterns and structures unique to primes. Example: f_x(n) = n, f_y(n) = n^2 or simply n, n^2.
PrimeGen Mode (1D Generation): Enter or evolve a single function, f(n), to generate numbers. The app visualizes which outputs are prime and how many unique primes are produced. Example: f(n) = 2*n + 1.
ilmenit commented on Gemini 2.5 Pro admitting own lack of capabilities imgur.com/a/ikVMfeA... · Posted by u/ilmenit
Trying to stress-test LLM Agents on RetroArch codebase (quite complex, with a lot of conditional compilation) Gemini 2.5 Pro admitted lack of own capabilities. That's actually nice behavior that I'd expect to see more from other models that don't stop and make more and more mess.
ilmenit commented on Show HN: Pressure – a simple 2D board game in JavaScript ilmenit.github.io/pressur... · Posted by u/ilmenit
Avid go player with some basic familiarity with other classic abstract strategy games here.
There are some interesting ideas here but it feels like it's lacking a driving force pushing the game forward. It seems like the players can just keep rearranging their pieces in their own area refusing to engage and risk capture. Retreat seems to often be a sensible strategy.
Perhaps this is most similar to chess but in chess if your opponent just moves back and forth you can easily line up an unstoppable attack while they are messing around. It's unclear here how to avoid the situation where the opponents just dance around each other making sure they never get captured.
Could also compare to Stratego where there just isn't anywhere to retreat to, forcing players to engage.
Other abstracts like go and Othello are always adding pieces to the board so there's no way to stall or slow play the game.
Thank you for the feedback! I was thinking about the force forward mechanic and as it exists in mentioned game. In Pressure stepping back is defensive until reaching the edge of the board. The biggest problem with the current design I have with endgame when it's balanced to 1 token left on each side. This could be a draw, because it's in most of the cases is not possible to lead to surrounding the leftover token. With 2 to 1 left still (depending on a board setup) it's possible to dance around to avoid capture.
Do you have some proposal that would work in this game?
Key capabilities: - Extremely optimized emulator of subset of 6502 CPU and ANTIC to simulate execution on real machine.
- Optimization: Late Acceptance Hill Climbing (LAHC) and Diversified Late Acceptance Search (DLAS), with support for reproducible runs, evaluation limits, auto-save and resume.
- Dithering: chess, Floyd–Steinberg, random-Floyd, line, line2, 2D, Jarvis, simple, and Knoll; tunable strength and randomness.
- Color distance: YUV (default), RGB Euclidean, CIEDE2000, and CIE94; independently selectable for preprocessing and optimization.
- Dual-frame mode: two alternating frames (A/B) with YUV or RGB blending, optional temporal luma/chroma penalties to reduce flicker, and export of both per-frame and blended outputs.
- Performance: multi-threaded execution with per-thread line caches and configurable cache size.
- Image pipeline: resize filters (box, bilinear, bicubic, bspline, Catmull–Rom, Lanczos3) plus brightness/contrast/gamma adjustments.
- Hardware control: fine-grained control over Atari registers, including enabling/disabling hardware sprites (players/missiles) per scanline.
- Details mask: provide a mask image to emphasize selected regions and bring out fine details in the result.
- Palette selection: choose target palette files via Adobe ACT to match different monitors and CRT settings.
- Cross-platform: CMake-based builds for Windows, MacOS and Linux, with scripted Profile Guided Optimization.
- Extras: scripts and generators to assemble Atari executables.