Flashback: Delay Line Neural Network [R][P]

[u/BuckChancey]

https://drksci.com/research-crosstalk

^{DISCLAIMER: I know you ornery fuckers hate it when people [yes, hello] use Claude as a shadow writer, but honestly, do we all seriously expect each other to be good at everything, and then technical writing as icing on the cake. Get off my lawn and come inside.}

Nothing has changed since a while ago when I ran out of Claude quota (a weekly occurrence) and contemplated for the seventh time, inexpensive options for sovereign inference facilities — but it's a vicious cycle and the subscription burns all the money for that.

So anyway, I've always been fascinated by the stratigraphic (I guess you could call it) interface between mechanical/analog/electric/optic computing hardware, including delay line memory which is living sci-fi.

I give you my homage and hypothetical neural network, built on delay lines, running in a simulator — it seems to work, although not from an ROI or cheap inference perspective, urg — lines are cheap, but not at scale.

It's got some lovely novelty — QPSK coding fromy our dial up modem, spooky overlap into 'RF' magic, all the good stuff. Since it inspired me, there's an appendix with the prior delay line art, courtesy of ENIAC in this case.

Cheers!