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Jul 29, 2026, 9:28 AM@whitequark @dijumx there's also been anecdotal reports of evolved circuits that work perfectly until you remove them from the specific table they were assembled on
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsJul 29, 2026, 9:30 AM@0xabad1dea @dijumx yeah, that's pretty normal, what's unclear to me is what kind of model includes 50 Hz EMI (assuming one-shot design) and how it is simulated. if it iteratively removed a bunch of stuff until just a wire remained i can see that though
meimei@donotsta.reJul 29, 2026, 2:57 PM
aoanlaaoanla@hachyderm.ioJul 29, 2026, 8:00 PM@0xabad1dea @whitequark @dijumx yeah, I've said to multiple people that "LLM coding" and "LLM mathsing" all remind me strongly of the 1990s-2000s evolutionary programming / algorithms / circuits stuff, where you get inexplicable results that absolutely *minimise the cost function* but probably not *how you actually intended* or *in a way that is useful generally*