Ask HN: Exploring massive spaces without traversal or feedback (500KB prototype)
bCastle
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2026-04-29
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| | Ask HN: Exploring massive spaces without traversal or feedback (500KB prototype) | | 1 point by bCastle 52 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | discuss | | I can deterministically access any point in a 2^47 discrete space with constant cost, without traversal, memory, or feedback.
The system uses a structured index mapping to define the access order over the space (internally using a PRNG-based permutation).
Implementation is contained in a compact module (~500KB .xlsx) that includes the full generation logic (PRNG, ranking, and deterministic index mapping). It does not use external data and is not a database.
The generator operates independently of evaluation, while evaluation is performed by a constraint function acting strictly as a filter (accept/reject). There is no feedback loop, adaptation, or learning between generation and evaluation.
Status
Current prototype is a 500KB .xlsx file managing a space of 2^47. The architecture allows scaling to 2^61 with negligible increase in logic and constant access cost. Not yet experimentally validated at that scale.
Question
Are there known models that involve:
- structured deterministic sampling in discrete spaces
- deterministic transformations of indices for exploration control
- strict separation between generation and filtering
- and absence of feedback from evaluation back to the generator, as an alternative to traversal-based exploration | |
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