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One of Feynman's lesser known works is his lectures on computation. https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontiers-Physics/dp/0738202967 https:/
by colmmacc 2y ago
One of Feynman's lesser known works is his lectures on computation.
https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontiers-Physics/dp/0738202967 https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontier...
Feynman is not as expert on the topic as he is on his core research, but his gift for great explanation carries over and makes the material more accessible. The lectures are ground in thermodynamics and the related information theories, and there's a very accessible lecture in there too about Maxwell's Daemon. Most of the material is very foundational and still correct, so it's a good read for anyone who is interested in the area. I'm glad I read it before I had to deal with more complicated and statistical approaches to computation and entropy.
- gnatman 2y agoFenyman worked with Thinking Machines on their first supercomputer, The Connection Machine in the 80s. Here's some great background and anecdotes from the founder, Danny Hillis: https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin...
- winwang 2y agoHe also proposed using quantum computers to solve "hard" physical systems. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10522 Though, I'm unsure if he were the first to do so in a semi-public manner.
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