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Since people started using marketing tactics to promote themselves. WFC is a $100 name for a $1 concept. Other entries in the tech hall of shame are mersenne tw

Since people started using marketing tactics to promote themselves. WFC is a $100 name for a $1 concept. Other entries in the tech hall of shame are mersenne twister and dependency injection

rererereferred 2y ago
What would be a better name?
- on_the_train 2y ago
  WFC in particular wasn't even new. The exact same thing was published by someone else before. I don't know if he gave it a name though
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    The difference between Deepak Chopra's abuse of Quantum Physics terminology and WFC's is that WFC actually works and is useful for something, and its coiner publishes his results for free as open source software and papers, so he deserves more poetic license than a pretentious new-age shill hawking books and promises of immortality for cash like Deepak. Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching WFC (which is admittedly a catchier name than "Variable State Independent Decaying Sum (VSIDS) branching heuristics in conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers"): https://donhopkins.com/home/wfc-notes.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/wfc-notes.txt Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching Wave Function Collapse (WFC). -Don Hopkins Wave Function Collapse Maxim Gumin Paul Merrell https://paulmerrell.org/research/ https://paulmerrell.org/model-synthesis/ Liang et al Jia Hui Liang, Vijay Ganesh, Ed Zulkoski, Atulan Zaman, and Krzysztof Czarnecki. 2015. Understanding VSIDS branching heuristics in conflict-driven clauselearning SAT solvers. In Haifa Verification Conference. Springer, 225–241. WaveFunctionCollapse is constraint solving in the wild https://escholarship.org/content/qt1f29235t/qt1f29235t.pdf?t=qwp94i Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) Machine Learning (ML) [...lots more stuff...]
- dkersten 2y ago
  Constraint-based tiling maybe?
  - erikig 2y ago
    Permutation City with a nod to Egan?
DonHopkins 2y ago
Like calling random vector functional link networks and single-layer feed-forward networks with random hidden weight an "Extreme Learning Machine". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Contr... >Controversy >There are two main complaints from academic community concerning this work, the first one is about "reinventing and ignoring previous ideas", the second one is about "improper naming and popularizing", as shown in some debates in 2008 and 2015.[33] In particular, it was pointed out in a letter[34] to the editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks that the idea of using a hidden layer connected to the inputs by random untrained weights was already suggested in the original papers on RBF networks in the late 1980s; Guang-Bin Huang replied by pointing out subtle differences.[35] In a 2015 paper,[1] Huang responded to complaints about his invention of the name ELM for already-existing methods, complaining of "very negative and unhelpful comments on ELM in neither academic nor professional manner due to various reasons and intentions" and an "irresponsible anonymous attack which intends to destroy harmony research environment", arguing that his work "provides a unifying learning platform" for various types of neural nets,[1] including hierarchical structured ELM.[28] In 2015, Huang also gave a formal rebuttal to what he considered as "malign and attack."[36] Recent research replaces the random weights with constrained random weights.[6][37] But at least it's easier to say, rolls off the tongue smoothly, and makes better click bait for awesome blog postings! I also love how the cool buzzwords "Reservoir Computing" and "Liquid State Machines" sounds like such deep stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903302 >"I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion: Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication." -Bill O'Reilly How about rebranding WFC as "Extreme Liquid Quantum Sudoko Machines"? ;) Then there's "Crab Computing"! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701560 [...] If billiard balls aren't creepy enough for you, live soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae can be used in place of the billiard balls. https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/researchers-build-crab-powered.html https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/resear... https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/ https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/ http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Yuta Nishiyama. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. Andrew Adamatzky. Unconventional Computing Centre. University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Abstract Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behavior. Swarms of the crabs are tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments we demonstrate that swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/02/26/crab-computing/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/02/26/crab-computing/

Since people started using marketing tactics to promote themselves. WFC is a $100 name for a $1 concept. Other entries in the tech hall of shame are mersenne twister and dependency injection

rererereferred 2y ago

What would be a better name?

on_the_train 2y ago
WFC in particular wasn't even new. The exact same thing was published by someone else before. I don't know if he gave it a name though
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  The difference between Deepak Chopra's abuse of Quantum Physics terminology and WFC's is that WFC actually works and is useful for something, and its coiner publishes his results for free as open source software and papers, so he deserves more poetic license than a pretentious new-age shill hawking books and promises of immortality for cash like Deepak. Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching WFC (which is admittedly a catchier name than "Variable State Independent Decaying Sum (VSIDS) branching heuristics in conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers"): https://donhopkins.com/home/wfc-notes.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/wfc-notes.txt Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching Wave Function Collapse (WFC). -Don Hopkins Wave Function Collapse Maxim Gumin Paul Merrell https://paulmerrell.org/research/ https://paulmerrell.org/model-synthesis/ Liang et al Jia Hui Liang, Vijay Ganesh, Ed Zulkoski, Atulan Zaman, and Krzysztof Czarnecki. 2015. Understanding VSIDS branching heuristics in conflict-driven clauselearning SAT solvers. In Haifa Verification Conference. Springer, 225–241. WaveFunctionCollapse is constraint solving in the wild https://escholarship.org/content/qt1f29235t/qt1f29235t.pdf?t=qwp94i Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) Machine Learning (ML) [...lots more stuff...]
dkersten 2y ago
Constraint-based tiling maybe?
- erikig 2y ago
  Permutation City with a nod to Egan?

DonHopkins 2y ago

Like calling random vector functional link networks and single-layer feed-forward networks with random hidden weight an "Extreme Learning Machine". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Contr... >Controversy >There are two main complaints from academic community concerning this work, the first one is about "reinventing and ignoring previous ideas", the second one is about "improper naming and popularizing", as shown in some debates in 2008 and 2015.[33] In particular, it was pointed out in a letter[34] to the editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks that the idea of using a hidden layer connected to the inputs by random untrained weights was already suggested in the original papers on RBF networks in the late 1980s; Guang-Bin Huang replied by pointing out subtle differences.[35] In a 2015 paper,[1] Huang responded to complaints about his invention of the name ELM for already-existing methods, complaining of "very negative and unhelpful comments on ELM in neither academic nor professional manner due to various reasons and intentions" and an "irresponsible anonymous attack which intends to destroy harmony research environment", arguing that his work "provides a unifying learning platform" for various types of neural nets,[1] including hierarchical structured ELM.[28] In 2015, Huang also gave a formal rebuttal to what he considered as "malign and attack."[36] Recent research replaces the random weights with constrained random weights.[6][37] But at least it's easier to say, rolls off the tongue smoothly, and makes better click bait for awesome blog postings! I also love how the cool buzzwords "Reservoir Computing" and "Liquid State Machines" sounds like such deep stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903302 >"I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion: Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication." -Bill O'Reilly How about rebranding WFC as "Extreme Liquid Quantum Sudoko Machines"? ;) Then there's "Crab Computing"! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701560 [...] If billiard balls aren't creepy enough for you, live soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae can be used in place of the billiard balls. https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/researchers-build-crab-powered.html https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/resear... https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/ https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/ http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Yuta Nishiyama. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. Andrew Adamatzky. Unconventional Computing Centre. University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Abstract Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behavior. Swarms of the crabs are tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments we demonstrate that swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/02/26/crab-computing/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/02/26/crab-computing/