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Deep Molecular Programming
- fsloth 7y agoProgrammable matter. Now we are getting closer to the future we were promised.
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- youareostriches 7y agoWell, what do you think life is? It’s a product of chemical computation.
- cs702 7y agoA warning shot. I'm bracing for what I think will be rapid acceleration in joint organic-machine experimentation going forward. Over the next decade, I surmise it's likely we will see everything ranging from constructing and training large-scale organic/molecular deep neural networks with stochastic gradient descent (which is what these guys have done at a small scale) to integrating artificial networks with organic ones (which is what startups like Neuralink are doing) to who knows what else. We live in interesting times.
- canjobear 7y agoHow can a binary-valued network be differentiable?
- GregarianChild 7y agoThe loss function needs to be differentiable. The paper uses square hinge loss which is differentiable.
- canjobear 7y agoThanks, and for those who are wondering how squared hinge loss is differentiable, I found: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-squared-hinge-loss-differentiable https://www.quora.com/Why-is-squared-hinge-loss-differentiab...
- aledalgrande 7y agoUntil when do I have to wait for an Organic Raspberry Pi to play with?
- _ZeD_ 7y agofuture virus and worms will be scary...
- zingermc 7y agoThis paper mentions CRN++, a compiler that translates an imperative language into Chemical Reaction Networks. I had no idea this field existed. This stuff is mind bogglingly cool! https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430
- amelius 7y agoI skimmed the paper but I still wonder how a (practical) memory would be implemented, and how many bits it could contain. I think these computations all happen in a "soup", and this means that the memory can only exist as a superposition of concentrations, which I suppose has its limits.
- akimball 7y agoNucleic acids store bits pretty well.