You are of course aware that Xilinx has its own flavour of ML stuff that can be pushed onto its FPGA's. I believe it is mostly geared towards inference, but have you considered checking the plausibility of your 'as good as a 3090' estimate against the published performance numbers of the first party solutions?
Not quite sure that part about a tungsten rod being equivalent to a nuclear weapon is correct.
Earth orbital velocity is 7.8km/s. so if all the mass in a starship launch went into one tungsten rod then that rod would have an energy of 0.5 * 100000 * 7800^2 = 3 terajoules, or 3/4 of a kiloton of TNT. Nuclear weapons are tens of kilotons at a minimum and single digit megatons often, so I don't think this is a fair comparison.
This actually makes a great deal of sense if you think about it for a little bit. The energy that the tungsten rod has is given to...
I think there are two things being talked about here, the ability to solve mazes and knowledge of what a maze looks like.
If the internal representation of the maze is a generic one like a Graph/Tree/whatever then you can generate a whole bunch of fake mazes easily since here a random maze == a random tree, and a random tree is easy to make. The observations that the robot makes about mazes that it does encounter can then be used to inform what type of tree to generate.
For example you would not be likely to observe a 2D maze with four left turns...
I think that the AI here is going to have to not just fill in the blanks but convert to a whole new intermediary format. I say this because there are lots of people who despite from the outside appearing normal don't even see images. A less extreme example would be the people who do and don't subvocalise whilst reading - I know that when I'm stuck in the middle of a novel it's basically just a movie playing in my head, there's no conscious spelling out of the words, but for other people there is a narrator. Because of this the larg...
One thing that does not yet seem to have been mentioned is that it's unfavourable evolutionarily to have anything other than a 50/50 mix of males/females, as if there is a preponderance of one gender then if you are the opposite gender you'll tend to have more babies. Of course there are exceptions to this due to things like infanticide but on the whole it's a good approximation.
This does not explain how the first male came about of course, but it does explain how it only had to evolve once by chance and then immediately took over from there.
There are case... (read more)