« BackAn Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimizationblog.speechmatics.comSubmitted by atomlib 4 days ago
  • abetusk 16 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

    • latchkey 16 hours ago

      [2023] Curious if this has changed at all since then.