Look, the inventors of the memristor themselves are already pretty gray-area as far as academic integrity goes. Let me substanciate that: I am not able to judge

Look, the inventors of the memristor themselves are already pretty gray-area as far as academic integrity goes. Let me substanciate that: I am not able to judge whether their creation is innovative as an electronics device, but they published a few papers on its abilities to solve optimization problems, and I went to their booth at a conference. In all those occasions, they have a propensity for grand claims that are not backed by their actual data. Indeed, if even half their claims were true, we should all switch to their device for any optimization problem. So pair that with some crpyto people claiming to "emulate" memristors, and that's a lot of red flags already.