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Brute Force = Intelligence?
Today’s neural networks are morbidly obese, bloated, brute-force contraptions. Meanwhile, nature conjures far greater intelligence per unit from tiny assemblies of neurons, oscillators, and molecules—running on a shoestring energy budget with near-zero waste.
Advanced alien civilizations mastered computation by tapping into the nonlinear reservoirs of oceans, atmospheric vortices, ionized gas flows, tectonic tremors, fungal webs - whatever nature offered. When will we stop brute-forcing and start listening?
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Reminder: frequency is just the time‐derivative of phase. It all can be represented by a circle.
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The Period-doubling cascades en route to chaos remains one of the most puzzling features of nature
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"Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest..." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. McLeod Ganj. Photo by Sahil Pradhan.
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"47 earthquakes strike Istanbul in 3 hours"
Here's the problem. The strong earthquakes along the NAF, pictured inside the red crescent in the small map below, have been steadily moving west toward Istanbul, population 14.6 million.
