Logarithm

So when you think about the golden ratio or the Fibonacci sequence in a spiral, People tend to focus on the outward projection of it instead of the inward.

Logarithmic is the word I was trying to think of earlier.

The circle is logarithmic.

Yeah.

I've just found two 1906 editions of International Correspondence Schools textbooks on my dusty shelves.

One is titled Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Logarithms and Geometrical Drawing, no mention of calculus.

The other is titled Surveying, Mapping and Astronomy.

Here astronomy deals mainly with celestial navigation.

That is a phenomenal way to visualize it.

Logarithms compress the scale of reality so our brains can actually work with the math.

A logarithm is just the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a given number.

And we distinguish between common logarithms, which use base 10- And natural logarithms, which use base E, right?

You know, rather than using it to move the car more and more miles, you would basically, you know, shrink the range of the vehicle.

So our approach to inference at that time was like, let's think about mathematically it being different, and let's approach math it from a first principles math perspective, and that's how we converged on using log- logarithmic math for AI.

So that set up, uh, if, you know, you want it to be fortuitous, well, that set up the foundation for TensorDyne today.

We didn't build a perfect device, but we, uh, we validated our math.