Hacker Papers
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Seven Trees in One
Hacker News threads
- 77
A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2013Poll on nature of reality
- Nov 2016A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Nov 2014Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
- Sep 2015Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
- Oct 2015Quantum effects in relatively large systems
- Oct 2017The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- Sep 2018Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
- Jun 2020What is a photon? (2017)
- May 2024Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- 78
Qualitatively characterizing neural network optimization problems
Hacker News threads
- 79
Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2011Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating
- Jul 2012How big is the entire universe?
- Aug 2015Olbers' paradox
- Aug 2018Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered
- Jun 202012 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
- Aug 2023Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified
- Dec 2023Astronomers posit that we live in a giant void
- Apr 2024Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
- 80
Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization
Hacker News threads
- 81
Ologs: a categorical framework for knowledge representation
Hacker News threads
- 82
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview
Hacker News threads
- 83
Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Asymmetric numeral systems (2014)
- May 2016Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
- Jan 2023Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding and Huffman coding 2014 [pdf]
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Jul 2016Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
- Aug 2016Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
- Apr 2017JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial
- Aug 2017Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept
- Aug 2017Understanding Asymmetric Numeral Systems
- May 2022Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
- Mar 2024The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar
- 84
Meta Math! The Quest for Omega
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2010Book review: The Limits of Mathematics by Gregory Chaitin
- Aug 2013Digital physics
- Apr 2014Far From 'Infinitesimal': A Mathematical Paradox's Role In History
- Apr 2015When is proof by contradiction necessary?
- Apr 2016On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
- Oct 2017Ask HN: How and where can I publish my research on AI as a college dropout?
- Sep 2022How Big Is Infinity?
- Feb 2024Floats Are Weird
- 85
A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2010The Single Sign On
- Nov 2018The impossibility of intelligence explosion
- Jan 2024Learning Universal Predictors
- 86
Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Hacker News threads
- 87
Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2014Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
- Jan 2015Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013) [pdf]
- Jan 2014Deep Mind's neural networks play 7 Atari 2600 games with more skill than a human
- Jan 2014Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
- Jan 2014Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris
- Dec 2014Google's Intelligence Designer
- Jan 2015Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- May 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jan 2017CS 294 Deep Reinforcement Learning, Spring 2017
- Jan 2024Self-Rewarding Language Models
- 88
Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Generalization of Conway's “Game of Life” to a Continuous Domain
- Oct 2012Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
- May 2018Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
- Jun 2021ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
- Nov 2022In Game of Life any buildable pattern can be constructed by colliding 15 gliders
- Jan 2024Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns
- 89
Formalization, Mechanization and Automation of Gödel's Proof of God's Existence
Hacker News threads
- 90
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Jan 2018Proposal for Proquints
- Jul 2020Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
- Dec 2014Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
- May 2015Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- Sep 2018How to Name a Baby (2013)
- Nov 2019Bitspeak converts hex strings to pronounceable words
- Feb 2020Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
- Sep 2020Readable Pointers
- 91
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2023The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
- Nov 2014The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- Jul 2015The Mathiness of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Dec 2015Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
- Nov 2016We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
- Mar 2018Why I’m quitting GMO research
- Apr 2018EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
- Dec 2018Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
- 92
The Proof of Innocence
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2012Physicist challenges a traffic case about running a red light. He Won [pdf]
- Apr 2012[pdf] Proof of Innocence, or how a Physicist gets out of a traffic ticket.
- Apr 2012Judge vs. Physics Professor: The Proof of Innocence
- Apr 2012Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
- Jul 2017Quirks of the arXiv
- Oct 2023The Proof of Innocence
- 93
NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2015NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Jul 2015NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Nov 2016NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
- Aug 2010Ask HN: If P = NP, what does it mean?
- May 2015Is Quantum Mechanics an Island in Theoryspace? (2004) [pdf]
- May 2015Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
- Nov 2015Computability: The Greatest Law of Physics
- Dec 2015A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)
- Nov 2016The P=?NP Poll (2002) [pdf]
- Aug 2017Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
- Aug 2023Thermodynamic Linear Algebra (solving linear systems in O(n))
- 94
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2012Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors [pdf]
- Dec 2012Why use SVM
- Feb 2014Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
- May 2014What does a neural network actually do?
- Oct 2015Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning
- Aug 2016Some of the most important deep learning papers
- Nov 2016Learning about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- 95
PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Hacker News threads
- 96
The Free Will Theorem
Hacker News threads
- 97
There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2012Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem [pdf]
- Mar 2012There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem
- Jun 2017Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
- Jun 2019Let’s Publish Everything
- Jun 2019Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)
- May 2023Problems harder than NP-Complete
- 98
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
- Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
- Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
- Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
- Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
- Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
- Apr 2022The singularity is close?
- Mar 2023And yet It Understands
- 99
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
Hacker News threads
- May 2012Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning
- Jun 2012In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
- Jun 2012Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face
- Aug 2013The Face Scan Arrives
- Sep 2013Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
- Dec 2013Google is the new Bell Labs
- Aug 2015M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
- Mar 2023Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you?
- 100
Constructor Theory of Information
Hacker News threads
- May 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Nov 2014Constructor Theory of Information
- Mar 2019Constructor Theory of Information
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- May 2014A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
- Dec 2014Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
- Apr 2021How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
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