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Analog computers have such an elegance to them. I've wondered if we'll ever seen them return for specialized purposes, outside of music.
by z3c0 4y ago
Analog computers have such an elegance to them. I've wondered if we'll ever seen them return for specialized purposes, outside of music.
- bitL 4y agoThere are attempts to solve hard optimization problems in an instant with them.
- tiedieconderoga 4y agoYou've probably already seen it, but there's a classic US Navy training film which talks about how they were used to solve differential equations in battleships around the WWII era. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug