Von Neumann's Elephant
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Von Neumann's Elephant
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Re: Von Neumann's Elephant
#2How about just one parameter! https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/8/9/095118/22887/One-pa...
Re: Von Neumann's Elephant
#3Thinking in software dev terms.
It says four parameters and then the solution provided in the Wiki starts with "let's use complex numbers" and lands with what the normies call 8 numbers.
I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.
Re: Von Neumann's Elephant
#4How about just one parameter! https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/8/9/095118/22887/One-pa...
I enjoyed that a lot, thanks for sharing! Given arbitrary precision, the number of parameters becomes meaningless as a measure of model complexity, and even this one-parameter equation has infinite VC dimension.
Re: Von Neumann's Elephant
#5Thinking in software dev terms. It says four parameters and then the solution provided in the Wiki starts with "let's use complex numbers" and lands with what the normies call 8 numbers. I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.
> I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.
Yes, those are called octonions.
Though I don't know if anyone has tried to use one to draw an elephant.
Re: Von Neumann's Elephant
#6Thinking in software dev terms. It says four parameters and then the solution provided in the Wiki starts with "let's use complex numbers" and lands with what the normies call 8 numbers. I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four.
> I am pretty sure they can come up with some other math concept which packs 8 numbers into one, not four. Yes, those are called octonions. Though I don't know if anyone has tried to use one to draw an elephant.
Surely if you're using octonions you have to draw a....squid! Or possibly some other cephalopod.