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Published in OneZero

·Aug 18, 2020

From Analog to Digital and Back

Bits are the new electrons. The nature of analog computing is to take control. — In July 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a 70-year-old lawyer, philosopher, and mathematician whose “tragedy was that he met the lawyers before the scientists,” joined Peter the Great, the 44-year-old tsar of Russia, in taking the cure at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, drinking mineral water instead of alcohol for the duration…

Computing

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From Analog to Digital and Back
From Analog to Digital and Back

Published in OneZero

·Feb 12, 2019

The Third Law

The future of computing is analog — The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: before and after electronic digital computers and the codes they spawned proliferated across the earth. The Old Testament prophets, who delivered the underlying logic, included Thomas Hobbes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The New Testament prophets…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Future of Computing Is Analog
The Future of Computing Is Analog
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