Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

83 pointsposted 2 days ago
by rbanffy

14 Comments

RiverCrochet

2 days ago

> In contrast, p-bits flip between 0 or 1 with a tunable probability.

Isn't this basically an ADC (except the tunable probability isn't an input voltage)? Is this kinda-sorta a new form of analog computing?

anonymousiam

2 days ago

It's not mentioned in the article, but this hardware architecture may be better suited for brute-forcing password/crypto/key cracking than traditional computing architectures.

rbanffy

2 days ago

Is there a paper on that? I’m not I see how.

spiritplumber

2 days ago

Hari Seldon approves

rbanffy

2 days ago

Computational Sociodynamics will be a very promising tool.

m-hodges

2 days ago

I absolutely love the photo of the computer at the top of the article. Not at all what I thought I was going to see from this headline.

faangguyindia

2 days ago

curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.

v3ss0n

2 days ago

Best LLM ever.

dr_dshiv

2 days ago

When can I get an API key!

bethekind

a day ago

I'm ignorant. What problems is this good at solving?