Telling people I’m using my highly parallel coprocessor to implement some nonlinear optimization techniques invented to manage the USSR’s economy so I don’t have to hear “Oh, you’re doing AI stuff?” ever again.
@vruba "you and I are not the same" vibes
@vruba now I'm getting hydraulic economy simulator vibes
@vruba as it happens I’ve got Francis Spufford right here and he’d like to have a word with you,
@vruba i wish the ai enthusiasts would branch out in their interests and bound out of the office to touch grass
@fgregg I suspect I find a lot of them more interesting than you do, but still not the ones who make the news.
@vruba got an open code repository for that?
@simon_brooke It’s just the stuff that’s now called AI, which is built heavily on things like Kantorovich’s work on optimization of large systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich#Mathematics
I’m constructing algorithmic central planners for these pixels. It has pretty much nothing to do with the thing venture capitalists are interested in.