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Noise and component imprecision has always limited analog computing.
by em3rgent0rdr 4mo ago
Noise and component imprecision has always limited analog computing.
- PaulHoule 4mo agoAnd a general lack of reconfigurability to solve general problems. There’s been interest in analog neural networks for a long time. Those problems you mention are important in music synthesis where people could live with limited reconfigurability but reliability is at a premium: synth players in early touring bands (e.g. Yes) had to be electronics technicians and instruments have to survive being packed in boxes and transported everywhere. The Yamaha DX-7 made FM synthesis mainstream because digital FM synthesis was absolutely reliable.
- DennisP 4mo agoAnalog synths are a lot more reliable these days though.
- vintermann 4mo agoIn neutral networks, we seem to be pushing towards ever lower precision floats, and we use noise for all sorts of useful things.
- vessenes 4mo agoAlso true: all computing is analog computing.