AI on a Piece of Sponge?
Posted on August 7, 2026August 8, 2026 by lovekemic Letters imprinted on the same piece of sponge in it’s compressed region (shown by the darker region) In 2020, I was grappling with a piece of sponge. I had come across an unusual effect in a soft elastic material. I published in Soft Matter and its’ older version was available on Arxiv from around a couple of years ago.
- ▪Posted on August 7, 2026August 8, 2026 by lovekemic Letters imprinted on the same piece of sponge in it’s compressed region (shown by the darker region) In 2020, I was grappling with a piece of sponge.
- ▪I had come across an unusual effect in a soft elastic material.
- ▪I published in Soft Matter and its’ older version was available on Arxiv from around a couple of years ago.
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| Original publisher | My Regular Scientific Explorations |
| Canonical URL | https://driftspeed.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/ai-on-a-piece-of-sponge/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:05:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-08T04:10:41.962Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-08T04:10:41.962Z |
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AI on a piece of sponge? Posted on August 7, 2026August 8, 2026 by lovekemic Letters imprinted on the same piece of sponge in it’s compressed region (shown by the darker region) In 2020, I was grappling with a piece of sponge. I had come across an unusual effect in a soft elastic material. I published in Soft Matter and its’ older version was available on Arxiv from around a couple of years ago. According to this effect, you can encode memory (of deformation) in the individual rods of the sponge at a millimeter scale. Each orientation of a rod can correspond to a different n-bit, based on how we define it. Thus we can encode a lot of numbers, a lot of information into the piece of sponge. It is not memory foam, because it is reversible.
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