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Dear all, I hope to embark on a small US tour in the spring, so far with dates in Boston, Buffalo, College Station and Dallas. Between those last two I still have a gap in my schedule from Thursday the 27th to Sunday the 30th of March, would anybody have a suggestion for a place to screen my most recent film or give a talk or - even better - both, preferably in Texas or in a state not far from Texas ? 1/2

Listened to this Story by Charles Platt on WIRED from last year (2023) earlier today and found it amazingly insightful and enlightening about current - and very likely also future - technological developments around "Analog Computing"
To summarize it with his words:
"Analog is dead.
Long live analog."
I really recommend this for anyone interested in current and future technological developments - also, but not exclusively involving "A.l.".

#AnalogComputing #AI #Wired

wired.com/story/unbelievable-z

Antwortete Earl K. Miller

@ekmiller

Quite the lengthy (yet interesting) introduction to this paper:

"Nanosecond protonic programmable resistors for analog deep learning" by Onen et al. 2024 science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

... authored by MIT Prof. Bilge Yildiz among others, who just completed her sabbatical year in Cambridge, at the chemistry department and in our #Pembroke1347 college. Was such a wonderful visitor – her research is fascinating.

Ihr wollt mal einen Analogrechner programmieren, wisst aber nicht woher nehmen, wenn nicht stehlen? Well … könnta kaufen. Bei der Firma Anabrid. In Deutschland. Was das Kasterl ist und wie es dazu kam, könnt ihr z. B. auch hier nachlesen: electronicdesign.com/blogs/non

Disclaimer: Ich bin mit den Leuten weder verwandt noch verschwägert, aber über meine Alteisensammelei mit Bernd – dem Ideengeber und Hauptentwickler –  verbunden. Ich habe hier freilich auch einen THAT. #analogcomputing #that

Electronic Design · So... What if THAT Analog Computer was Cheaper than a Smartphone? (Part 1)Von Andy Turudic

Here's a really interesting (long) paper on what a theory of computing based on arbitrary physical substrates might look like: arxiv.org/abs/2307.15408

"Toward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers: extended version"

Herbert Jaeger, Beatriz Noheda, Wilfred G. van der Wiel (2023)

@bnoheda

arXiv.orgToward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers: extended versionApproaching limitations of digital computing technologies have spurred research in neuromorphic and other unconventional approaches to computing. Here we argue that if we want to systematically engineer computing systems that are based on unconventional physical effects, we need guidance from a formal theory that is different from the symbolic-algorithmic theory of today's computer science textbooks. We propose a general strategy for developing such a theory, and within that general view, a specific approach that we call "fluent computing". In contrast to Turing, who modeled computing processes from a top-down perspective as symbolic reasoning, we adopt the scientific paradigm of physics and model physical computing systems bottom-up by formalizing what can ultimately be measured in any physical substrate. This leads to an understanding of computing as the structuring of processes, while classical models of computing systems describe the processing of structures.