Readit Newsjuliangamble commented on GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training arxiv.org/abs/2506.14272... · Posted by u/juanviera23
Maybe try simulating the algorithms in software before building hardware? People have been trying to get spiking networks to work for several decades now, with zero success. If it does not work in software, it's not going to work in hardware.
“Zero success” seems a bit strong. People have been able to get 96% accuracy on MINST digits on their local machine.
https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_classifiers.html
I think it may be more accurate to say “1970s level neural net performance”. The evidence suggests it is a nascent field of research.
juliangamble commented on Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct bitbashing.io/haskell-con... · Posted by u/ingve
A lot of the complexity here is just hidden in Haskell's runtime, which implements async processing based on green threads, besides other features such as GC. Though to be fair, the software transactional memory (STM) featureset is quite unique to Haskell since it relies on the availability of pure functions to ensure correctness. It's kind of hard to imagine a full equivalent to it in other well-known languages.
Quibble: Both Clojure and Scala have a Software Transactional Memory implementation, and the original Clojure Ant demo showed this.
juliangamble commented on Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 bbc.com/news/articles/c78... · Posted by u/danso
I did the tour of Bletchley Park today and my Tour Guide said he'd met Betty Webb, that he mourned her loss, and that when he had met her at a reunion, she had remained tight-lipped about what her work had been on.
> These “limitations” inhibit truly intelligent behavior in machines, LeCun says. This is down to four key reasons: a lack of understanding of the physical world; a lack of persistent memory; a lack of reasoning; and a lack of complex planning capabilities.
juliangamble commented on Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum huntnewsnu.com/82511/edit... · Posted by u/nickmain
The University that hosted "The Little Schemer" and all its derivatives. Those books were a delight and taught me to think about programming in a way that other languages had not. (Even if I didn't go to that University).
https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/teaching.html
I had been to a Scheme conference in Washington, adjunct to the Clojure Conference one year, and it was attended by many undergraduates from Northeastern, (and the authors of those books that I got a photo with.)
I have to feel sympathy for those undergraduates I spoke to. They gave a strong feeling, even then (8 years ago), that it was time for the University to move on in language choice.
I had a similar experience in the late 90s when the world was picking up Java, and our University insisted on teaching in Eiffel.
juliangamble commented on He Built Apple's 1980s iPad Concept [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Grd_a... · Posted by u/dragonbonheur
Like a @Nanoraptor concept art, except real…