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Why wouldn't summing all possibilities be the simpler solution? Thing about Monte Carlo simulations - it's simpler to just try all possibilities than to figure
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Why wouldn't summing all possibilities be the simpler solution?
Thing about Monte Carlo simulations - it's simpler to just try all possibilities than to figure out what is the formula of the correct result.
Neural networks also work like that - you randomly do things and propagate errors with simple rules instead of figuring out the complex formula that would give you the answer.
There seems to be a lot of power in summing up all the things.
If our universe is a computation, our practical experience seems to suggest that a Monte Carlo like simulation of it would be more efficient than a closed-form formula.
- kzrdude 4y agoSumming all the things is similar to just a big "OR" right? It lets the important signal through (you don't know which it is) and the other ones just have to be suppressed or suppressed enough to not interfere. For example all the other ones might as well be as if stochastic, so on average you get it right.
- shanebellone 4y ago"it's simpler to just try all possibilities than to figure out what is the formula of the correct result." Isn't this the premise of quantum computing too?