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Neural Network Learns The Physics of Fluids and Smoke | Two Minute Papers #118

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It is cited as an early example of neural networks learning physics, and recalled during later discussions of AI video generation.

Two Minute Papers covers a paper on speeding up fluid and smoke simulation with convolutional networks. It contrasts the approach with earlier regression forest methods.

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@sitkack Jan 2018 Cites it
on HN thread Linear logic and deep learning [pdf]
Linear Logic is amazing-ly useful, [link] Rust [0] wouldn't exist without it. Oddly enough, I think the next discontinuity in programming language design will be in making it easier to construct anytime [1], incremental [2] and succinct [3] programs. There is a tyranny of poor tolerancing that we currently have a very hard time from escaping. Is it that differentiable programs can be made sloppy in a way that a non-differentiable one can't? Have you looked at the research of using DNN for physics simulations? [4] [0] [link] [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] [this video]
Research using neural networks for physics simulation
@Fricken Jul 2024 Cites it
on HN thread New Sora Demo from OpenAI [video]
That reminds me of an episode of '2 Minute Papers' I saw 7 years ago, covering research to that effect: [this video]
Earlier research on neural networks learning physics

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