Michael Bieg

The Denkstunde: A Unit of Account for a Finite Mind

Thinking is the only major input to modern work with no unit. This working paper defines the Denkstunde (Dh): one hour of focused, undivided cognitive work by one person, roughly 66,000 per working life. The unit turns one question into something that can be priced: have the thin...

Computational Primes: A Systematic Framework for Partitioning Neural Network Computation Across Analog and Digital Domains

Twelve irreducible operations (P1-P12) with known physical implementations, and four without, as a basis for deciding which parts of a neural network belong in the analog domain. 114 algorithms are factored into these primes; the paper builds a compiler that decomposes a compute...