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Reading about brain waves makes me think analog computing could be the way to go.
by janpmz 2y ago
Reading about brain waves makes me think analog computing could be the way to go.
- Balgair 2y agoThe main issue is that we're lacking one of the four fundamental circuit components: the memristor [0]. If we had a simple, throw it in a box for five years, stable memristor, we'd have everything we'd need for brain modeling. Being as a memristor is effectively a synapse. With that, we would want to do everything in the analog domain anyways. [0] the other three are the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor.
- jiggawatts 2y agoWe have them now, on chips and everything.
- Balgair 2y agoWoah, where?! I can't seem to find anything on memristors being on chip or really being in solid state anything. I would love to get my hands on them!
- jiggawatts 2y agoA quick Google search will find thousands of articles. It was possible to buy memristor storage devices, but they weren't sufficiently competitive with ordinary flash memory and I believe they're relegated to niche applications such as high erase counts. AI implementations on Memristor circuitry has come up often enough that even I've heard of it. E.g.: A random recent development is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45312-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45312-0
- Balgair 2y agoI've been googling for a while on these, it's the first I've heard of it. Do you have a link at all? Not trying to troll here, I really am genuinely interested.