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(c) a technological breakthrough that makes what Nvidia makes obsolete.

• falcor84 1y ago
  My favorite sci-fi fever dream is of biological computation. With the rapid advances in computational biology, I think we might have full biological ALUs in my lifetime, which would offer incredible power efficiency.
  • kjellsbells 1y ago
    I've been thinking about this a lot lately too. There are biological systems that exist in vast quantity, like, say, ants or blades of grass (or, simply cells). I think there is a way to make them computing machines (there was a paper from Adleman, of RSA crypto fame, years ago about it, for example). The challenge is getting the problem broken down across billions of individual compute elements, and of getting the data in and out quickly.
    • danudey 1y ago
      Probably makes more sense to build a biological computer out of neurons than to try to build a beowulf cluster of ants or whatever.
  • M95D 1y ago
    Biology is slow.