https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1811.12936/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825076urn:hackerpapers:mention:1811.12936:18825076Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:15:26 GMT<p>Another fun one (from the many examples above!) is a new paper I am working on at the moment as well, but in the intersection of physics and math: it turns out you can phrase a bunch of physics problems as optimization problems, then use some very simple tools in optimization to derive fundamental limits of how well any device could ever perform. The preprint is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12936 An associated blog post is here: https://guille.site/physics-impossibility-results.html</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1811.12936/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.opticshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622857urn:hackerpapers:submission:1811.12936:18622857Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:12:19 GMT<p>Computational bounds for physical design</p><p></p><p>1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1811.12936/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>physics.optics