An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization blog.speechmatics.com 52 points by atomlib 4 days ago
abetusk 11 hours ago "Pointless" because it's trying to solve/make progress on "beggar-my-neighbor" which Conway called an anti-Hilbert problem [0]?Looks like infinite games have been found for Beggar my Neighbor [1] [2].[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar-my-neighbour#Game_theor...[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13855[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457359
"Pointless" because it's trying to solve/make progress on "beggar-my-neighbor" which Conway called an anti-Hilbert problem [0]?
Looks like infinite games have been found for Beggar my Neighbor [1] [2].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar-my-neighbour#Game_theor...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13855
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457359
[2023] Curious if this has changed at all since then.