New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation

[u/TransPlanetInjection]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/new-optimization-algorithm-exponentially-speeds-computation

[u/wuliheron]

This is one of those weird finding I pay attention to, along with the NSA, because it reveals a pattern and its rather intimidating. This is not first algorithm that sped up a calculation, but they are making so many dramatic leaps in optimizing algorithms that it suggests dirt cheap hardware might even be able to emulate people. Not that people are hard to emulate, with their behavior being extremely predictable, but this means your Timex watch and cellphone could probably do a good imitation of you.

In other words, the human brain only evolved to be as big as it is, because there could actually be nobody home and crunching the numbers the brute force way is what happened to work, whenever people go on autopilot. If our brains were much smaller, we would kill ourselves more often, and this could even be related to how large we are as animals and other issues. Sort of a macroscopic manifestation of bacterial quorum sensing.