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▲Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'quantamagazine.org
36 points by kjhughes 3 days ago | 3 comments
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whatever1 30 minutes ago [-]
This seems like classic state estimation & process control duo. We are rediscovering things that other fields are applying for decades.
dvh 27 minutes ago [-]
Backwards game of life? How hard can it be? Well... https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY
whatever1 19 minutes ago [-]
Yes we do control much more complex systems and optimize much more complex objectives than just a target arrangement of pixels. It is an optimization problem that people were trying to solve with heuristics. Leetcode style.

Of course it was hard if not impossible. And of course even a suboptimal neural network can do it easily.