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What? No. As far as computing goes, the digital abstraction still and will always hold unless we start doing analog computations like were done with analog comp
by analognoise 8y ago
What? No. As far as computing goes, the digital abstraction still and will always hold unless we start doing analog computations like were done with analog computers from the 1940's to about the 1960's (in the West, they lasted longer in Russia due to their inability to compete in Silicon).
A vacuum transistor, used as a switch, is still a switch.
- neltnerb 8y agoFWIW, I believe there's a theorem that given an allowable error rate in a digital computation was literally equivalent to a noise level in an analog computation. I agree that they are cool, especially for things like feedback and asynchronicity, but I'm not sure that they're fundamentally going to give us that much better results quantitatively.