Re: Well DUH ! AI People Finally Realize They Can Ditch Most Floating-Point for Big Ints

On 15/10/2024 07:31, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 10/14/24 6:16 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I think that even if it does not work successfully it is great that people are thinking outside the box.
Analogue computers could offer massive parallelism for simulating complex dynamic systems.

     Yea, but not much PRECISION beyond a stage or two
   of calx  :-)
    No "perfect" fixes.

As I said, let's say we are simulating airflow over  a fast moving object - now normally the fluid dynamics CFM is crap and it is cheaper and more accurate to throw it in a wind tunnel.
The wind tunnel is not measuiring data to any high accuracy but its using atomic level measurement cells in enormous quantities in parallel.
The problem with CFM is you cant have too may 'cells' or you run out of computer power. Its a step beyond 3D modelling where the more triangles you have the closer to real everything looks, but its a similar problem .
But a wind tunnel built out of analogue 'cells' might be quite simple in concept. Just large in silicon scale.
And it wouldn't need to be 'programmed' as its internal logic would be constructed to be the equations that govern fluid dynamics. All you would then do is take a 3D surface and constrain every cell in that computer on that surface to have zero output.
If I were a graduate again that's a PhD project that would appeal...
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