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Fractal Mathematics based Search Algorithms

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    fergalr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭fergalr


    Itzy wrote: »
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imagine-we-can-search-infinite-domains-fractal-nikolay-yakov?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

    The English may be bad, but the concept is an interesting one.

    You have recommended the post, and 2 people have liked it; but I didn't understand any of it. Frankly, to me, it sounds like pseudoscience; concept mush.

    Can anyone tell me what the post is about in coherent terms?


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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    fergalr wrote: »
    Frankly, to me, it sounds like pseudoscience; concept mush.

    Can anyone tell me what the post is about in coherent terms?

    Some guy with poor English and questionable computer skills who has just visualized a search space with a pretty picture.
    article wrote:
    My desktop processor is too slow it understands true and false. Nothing more. That is the reason it is named binary processor.

    :confused: It is not named a "binary processor".


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    fergalr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭fergalr


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    :confused: It is not named a "binary processor".

    In fairness to that point: our CPUs are built using 2 state logic right? (hence 'binary processor') I remember reading before about how the russians built a ternary computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

    No idea how it fits into the linked post's narrative, though. Upon reading it again I'm even more convinced there isn't anything there for me to understand - why share it?


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    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,649 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Itzy wrote: »
    ...the concept is an interesting one.

    Could you explain why?

    I don't understand it. But is this not what Quantum computing does only vastly more efficiently.


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    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Is it just me or is LinkedIn full of blogs with people trying desperately to look clever?

    Reading over the article it seems to say how fractals are beautiful and 'natural' mathematical algorithms, how they could be employed to perform a computational task and how this is currently held back by hardware/network limitations.

    I don't think there's anything particularly Earthshaking about this. After all, I think most of us will have tried our hand at programming the output of a fractal; the Koch triangle is an easy one to do; it follows a simple algorithm that may be codified and then you stick a 'GOTO 10' at the end.

    After all, what is a fractal? It's really just a repeating pattern - basically a recursive algorithm. But fractal probably sounds better.

    Anyhow, the author seems to be musing about some sort of (undefined and in the future) philosopher stone of a recursive algorithm which he prefers to refer to as a fractal. I'm sure it sounds impressive to the HR types who lurk around LinkedIn.


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