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		stochastician on Feb 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stochastic Pattern Recognition Dramatically Outper... This is similar to work myself and Vikash Mansinghka were doing in 2008 -- http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/43712/MIT-CSAI... . It's actually the basis of my PhD thesis, "Stochastic Architectures for Probabilistic Computation" -- if only I wasn't so busy with this startup!

erichocean on Feb 23, 2012 [–]

Hmm. Unbiased rendering is evaluating PDFs millions of times per second. Do you think stochastic logic could be used to speed that process up?

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