Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits 153
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."
There are 10 kinds of people in the world.. (Score:5, Funny)
12.5% that understands binary 87.5 that don't...
A Computer for Truth Challenged Scientists? (Score:3, Funny)
Awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:may i just say (Score:4, Funny)
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...
Re:There are 10 kinds of people in the world.. (Score:4, Funny)
Probably.
Re:Douglas Adams would be proud. (Score:3, Funny)
My Bistromathic drive makes that look like an electric pram
Re:There are 10 kinds of people in the world.. (Score:5, Funny)
Probably.
User: Are we in the right road to the beach? ... ... Ok no, it's not likely to be the road. I'm turning off now. Good luck!"
Google maps: Probably.
User: the fuck?... Is this the beach road or not.
Google maps: I'd say yes...ish. Most likely.
User: The road is cut! It ends like right here!
Google maps: Let me change my first answer to "I wouldn't bet on it. Much. I wouldn't bet much on it.
Re:The actual thesis (Score:4, Funny)
By Ben Vigoda, Co-Founder and CEO: http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf [mit.edu]
Huh, I thought he was dead.
Re:may i just say (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:Fuzzy Logic (Score:3, Funny)
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.