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I have trouble understanding how p-bits can speed up computations. Can't they be emulated with deterministic logic plus a random number generator?

• codewritinfool 9y ago
  I'm having the same thoughts.
• deckar01 9y ago
  It sounds like it speeds up the specific computations involved in simulating the inverse of a circuit. I imagine the speed of software simulations greatly inhibits their research.
• jfoutz 9y ago
  Yes absolutely. Prolog would kinda sorta do the same thing. It would be much faster though. You can build a mechanical computer with gears and cams, but it’s big and slow. This style is much quicker than a deterministic computer with an rng. It wobbles between all the valid states at the ghz range, rather than the thousands of cycles prolog would need.
  • sitkack 9y ago
    Isn't this a stepping stone to same style of computation as a Quantum Computer?