A blog post (updated) on the dangers of Generative AI and Agentic AI in Physical Process Control
I've gotten in this habit of building all software to be #deterministic. And I mean ALL software. 
Functional languages make this easier. But they still don't capture state of systems you rely on. Like time or random number generators. 
The things that truly break apart. 
Abstracting non deterministic properties to calls you inject can make a world of difference. It helps then being able to evaluate why you get an error for api outside of your control. And yes time is an api. 
Obelisk – a WASM-based deterministic workflow engine
Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
Evaluating Drought Risk Of The Red River Of The North Basin Using Historical And Stochastic Streamflow Upstream From Emerson, Manitoba
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20255002 <-- shared link to USGS publication
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https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis <-- USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database - USGS water open data for the Nation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #deterministic #waterbalance #stochasticweather #model #modeling #RedRiver #USA #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #waterresources #streamgage #NorthDakota #Manitoba #streamflow #flood #flooding #watersupply #agriculture #farming #ecology #drought #extremeweather #meteorology #basin #subbasin #risk #hazard #gauge #flow
@USGS
At the fundamental (#quantum) level, Nature is #probabilistic. Much of #computing is about modelling natural phenomena and it relies on semiconductor physics, which is inherently quantum mechanical. Yet, much of present day computing hobbles on #deterministic algorithms.
A new argument suggests that quantum mechanics may be more deterministic than previously thought, reigniting the debate on the relationship between physics and free will. The discussion centres around whether the indeterminacy at the quantum level leaves room for free will or if the universe is fundamentally deterministic.
#QuantumMechanics #FreeWill #Deterministic
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-physics-rule-out-free-will/
i wonder if it's possible to make a video game that would teach kids the intuition behind the "butterfly effect" by making each subsequent level's initial conditions determined by the outcome of the previous level, in such a way that the gameplay would guide you towards understanding that tiny decisions made on the first level will have huge consequences on level two, etc. #chaos #butterflyEffect #chaosTheory #deterministic #systems #nonlinear #differentialEquations #bifurcation cc @JamesGleick
Crazy how much difference the right data structure / #algorithm for a task makes.
This week I learned about #Deterministic #Finite #Automata and #Nondeterministic Finite Automata just to redo my clunky #AdventOfCode2023 day 12 challenge, written in #Rust #RustLang
Runtime for part 1 dropped from 1-2secs to milliseconds. Part 2 also milliseconds 
Are there any good Rust crates for DFAs/NFAs?
Many people solved that problem with #Dynamic #Programming - something else for the learn list 
Declarative, Imperative, Configuration, Data, Executable, Predicate Logic, Deterministic, Idempotent, Math, Logic
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ACM.451 What matters when it comes to security and supply chains
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#declarative #imperative #deterministic #logic #idempotent #supplychain
Look, if functioning as a person requires your brain to believe it's got #freeWill then whether the universe is #deterministic or not is academic.
I don't think you can properly function as an automaton. Free will is baked in at a very basic level. You can *believe* you have no free will, but you cannot *behave* that way.
Thanks to my #Reformed upbringing for making me think about this shit before the simulation theory jackasses started popping up everywhere.
'Policy Gradient Methods Find the Nash Equilibrium in N-player General-sum Linear-quadratic Games', by Ben Hambly, Renyuan Xu, Huining Yang.
http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/21-0842.html
#stochastic #deterministic #games
New updated #introduction / pinned:
The "Starship Schrödinger's Destiny" is an #interactive #vr #scifi #story about the crew of a #flyingsaucer
The story is about #manyworlds and we love the title because it's a contradiction: There can be no single destiny in a Schrödinger multiverse, all outcomes all happen with varying amplitudes.
And yet it is more #deterministic to have those amplitudes, than to just be selecting outcomes randomly. There is also a sense in which we are all destined to see all outcomes.
We are looking forward to building this choose-your-own-adventure in a multiverse setting, because there are so many ways in which all the choose-your-own-adventure style books demonstrate a multiverse too. All the possible outcomes existing all at once, but read with varying amplitudes.
But it's not just our story: The engine we are building to let us tell our story will be open for others to enact their own. To puppet the characters themselves, tell their own story. In a multiverse, all things can happen.
That's the plan anyway. Very early still. V0.3 took like four years. Hoping V0.4 will be quicker, but I seem to have decided it's time for the complete-rewrite, so. Ugh.
But there are milestone-movies along the way:
V0.1 saw our story "Forgettery".
https://starshipsd.com/pre/forgettery/
V0.2 was entitled "Eggs"
https://starshipsd.com/pre/eggs/
V0.3 was entitled "Payment"
https://starshipsd.com/pre/payment/
V0.3 is a massive leap forwards, which is why it has taken so very very long, and the coming V0.4 I hope will be basically feature-complete and written so I can share as much of the source as possible.
In the meantime, we have a side-story about aliens discovering a planet on the brink of economic and environmental collapse! Lots of shorts here:
https://starshipsd.com/observers/
Can anyone really define #ai?
Because to me, #OCR, STT, #search engines, etc. are not AI. They're #deterministic and functionally #verifiable. I give you X I expect Y.
To me, for AI, the Y would have to be extremely broad, and even then, would likely be unverifiable as outputs that don't meet the terms of Y could not automatically be deemed invalid; there would have to be an analysis of the process upon which Y is reached.
Besides, we can't even do that X->Y verification with human beings.
I also recently saw the Nolan film #Tenet
Absolutely stunning film 11/10. It is schockingly unique and tells a thrilling tale in a #compatibalist and #deterministic #freewill universe.
@codingquark Well, if you assume that the #universe is fundamentally #discrete and #deterministic, the implied result is either a repeating #finite system, or as I said in the following post, a non-repeating system that necessarily is experienced by versions of you that differ from current-you without bound. #cosmology #conjecture
Non-Deterministic Behavior of Thompson Sampling with Linear Payoffs and How to Avoid It
Doruk Kilitcioglu, Serdar Kadioglu
In #introduction - The "Starship Schrödinger's Destiny" is an #interactive #vr #scifi #story about the crew of a #flyingsaucer
The story is about #manyworlds and we love the title because it's a contradiction: There can be no single destiny in a Schrödinger multiverse, all outcomes all happen with varying amplitudes.
And yet it is more #deterministic to have those amplitudes, than to just be selecting outcomes randomly. There is also a sense in which we are all destined to see all outcomes.
We are looking forward to building this choose-your-own-adventure in a multiverse setting, because there are so many ways in which all the choose-your-own-adventure style books demonstrate a multiverse too. All the possible outcomes existing all at once, but read with varying amplitudes.
But it's not just our story: The engine we are building to let us tell our story will be open for others to enact their own. To puppet the characters themselves, tell their own story. In a multiverse, all things can happen.
That's the plan anyway. Very early still. V0.3 has taken like three years. Ugh.
But there are milestone-movies along the way.
V0.1 saw our story "Forgettery".
https://starshipsd.com/pre/forgettery/
V0.2 was entitled "Eggs"
https://starshipsd.com/pre/eggs/
V0.3 is a massive leap forwards, which is why it has taken so very very long, and should be ready early this year.
In the meantime, we have a side-story about aliens discovering a planet on the brink of economic and environmental collapse. They're released about four a year.
https://starshipsd.com/observers/
How Realtime Is Your Kernel? Scope A GPIO To Find Out - When debugging something as involved as kernel scheduler timings, you would typica... - https://hackaday.com/2022/12/05/how-realtime-is-your-kernel-scope-a-gpio-to-find-out/ #digitaloscilloscope #interruptlatency #deterministic #linuxhacks #real-time #embedded #rtlinux #linux #rtos
Greg Cocks 
Deboer 
