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I like watching computers figuring things out. For example, the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) has fascinated me since I was a teenager and first heard about it. At the time, massively parallel computing was going to be the solution. But they fell apart (late 1980s) and gave way to connectionism / neural networking – many of which can’t be parallelized (some can, “deep learning”), which then transformed into genetic algorithms, many of which can be parallelized. [in short] “Genetic algorithms usually perform well on discrete data, whereas neural networks usually perform efficiently on continuous data.” So, I wanted to find a visual travelling salesman solver that _could_ run in parallel which means a genetic algorithm and I found one here: https://github.com/bezzad/TSP – and deep in the src data is a compiled Windows version under debug, which I’m running here using 125 cities I made by doing a loose spiral that bounces off the walls. The music is copyright-free from Scott Buckley, who I just discovered when looking for a 6 minute piece to fit the length of my run here, and has a copyright-free music channel on Youtube, this piece is called Signal to Noise and captures the feeling.
I like watching computers
… [read full article]the notion of objects was always that of a transient, collective quality, alike-and-dissimilar-things momentarily cooperating in a grand set of dances by affinity — a deeper affinity which includes a notion of momentary repulsion for the sake of the dance – and then, without prior notice or with, disperses
You’re good in this … [read full article]
vection (sense of movement through space) is a surprisingly strange topic as it apparently means something different depending which scientist you ask. But I think visual is my focus and Radial and possibly Spiral have my interest.
vection (sense of movement … [read full article]
to double-check: does retinal spiral map to diagonal when followed just as concentric circles map to horizontal and radial arms to vertical?
to double-check: does retinal … [read full article]
sensations come at us all of the time. science drawings almost always show us a side or top down view but rarely a frontal view. Art shows frontal view.
sensations come at us … [read full article]
NATO protects international commerce. There are nations who wouldn’t deal favorably directly with the USA but will with, say, Denmark if they like Denmark. When dealing with far off pirates, you need friends in far off places and be honest, the USA is terrible at making friends.
NATO protects international commerce. … [read full article]
Space-saving structure in 3D, produced across Time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral
Space-saving structure in 3D, … [read full article]