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Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits
holy_calamity writes "Boston company Lyric Semiconductor has taken the wraps off a microchip designed for statistical calculations that eschews digital logic. It's still made from silicon transistors. But they are arranged gates that compute with analogue signals representing probabilities, not binary bits. That makes it easier to implement calculations of probabilities, says the company, which has a chip for correcting errors in flash memory claimed to be 30 times smaller than a digital logic-based equivalent."
12.5% that understands binary 87.5 that don't...
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
So basically its a computer that makes up statistical computations and corrects them to fit the models on the fly? Lazy scientists, rejoice!
How much longer before we get the "infinite improbability machine"?
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
as a machine learning person
This either means:
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You are a person who is learning from a machine or....
You are a learning machine who is now referring to itself as person! You also get excited about probabilities and you are posting on
A.I. has gone too far...
My Bistromathic drive makes that look like an electric pram
By Ben Vigoda, Co-Founder and CEO: http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf
Huh, I thought he was dead.
You are a learning machine who is now referring to itself as person! You also get excited about probabilities and you are posting on /.
A.I. has gone too far...
On the plus side, it sounds like the robot revolution is going to be stymied for the same reason as my productivity. Destroy all humans! After I refresh /. one more time...
The enemies of Democracy are
If you're into the concept of fuzzy logic, then I strongly suggest reading Aldiss' Barefoot in the Head if you've not already done so.
I also recommend not reading it.
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