Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently newatlas.com 73 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 days ago
gcoguiec 2 days ago Alternative link from Cornell's website: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/researchers-build-f...
beardyw 2 days ago I have always thought that digital killed analogue prematurely and unnecessarily. I hope this works out. iaw 14 hours ago The potential of fully miniature vacuum tubes was never realized
bjornsing 2 days ago Seems to be the press release for this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01422-1Anyone know where I can read it? hnuser123456 14 hours ago You can read it from that link if you're accessing from an institution subscribed to Nature or have Nature+. bjornsing 8 hours ago I asked Claude to dream it up instead. It was good.
hnuser123456 14 hours ago You can read it from that link if you're accessing from an institution subscribed to Nature or have Nature+. bjornsing 8 hours ago I asked Claude to dream it up instead. It was good.
ninalanyon 13 hours ago Surely mechanical clocks are digital in the sense that time is quantized into ticks by the escapement. The various gears do not rotate continuously. Legend2440 10 hours ago “Discrete” does not mean “digital”.Digital logic is the system of gates and switches that we use as an abstraction layer over analog circuits. AND, OR, XOR, etc.You certainly could build logic gates out of gears, and this would be a digital mechanical computer. But it’s not often done. sherburt3 7 hours ago I thought digital meant you use your fingers. I use my fingers a lot with my computer
Legend2440 10 hours ago “Discrete” does not mean “digital”.Digital logic is the system of gates and switches that we use as an abstraction layer over analog circuits. AND, OR, XOR, etc.You certainly could build logic gates out of gears, and this would be a digital mechanical computer. But it’s not often done. sherburt3 7 hours ago I thought digital meant you use your fingers. I use my fingers a lot with my computer
sherburt3 7 hours ago I thought digital meant you use your fingers. I use my fingers a lot with my computer
shakna 11 hours ago Don't you just love how marketing has to slap a "AI" paragraph in there?The bigger deal is 200mW for 30Ghz. Which incidentally... Is probably never going to be nice for modern AI.
nis0s 2 days ago It seems it will still use some digital process to encode and decode whatever is transmitted or received, I could be misreading it.
OutOfHere 2 days ago Link is not loading, probably due to DNS ad-blocking being blocked. Can someone save it to archive?Here is an alt link: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/researchers-build-f...
Alternative link from Cornell's website: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/researchers-build-f...
I have always thought that digital killed analogue prematurely and unnecessarily. I hope this works out.
The potential of fully miniature vacuum tubes was never realized
Seems to be the press release for this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01422-1
Anyone know where I can read it?
You can read it from that link if you're accessing from an institution subscribed to Nature or have Nature+.
I asked Claude to dream it up instead. It was good.
Surely mechanical clocks are digital in the sense that time is quantized into ticks by the escapement. The various gears do not rotate continuously.
“Discrete” does not mean “digital”.
Digital logic is the system of gates and switches that we use as an abstraction layer over analog circuits. AND, OR, XOR, etc.
You certainly could build logic gates out of gears, and this would be a digital mechanical computer. But it’s not often done.
I thought digital meant you use your fingers. I use my fingers a lot with my computer
Don't you just love how marketing has to slap a "AI" paragraph in there?
The bigger deal is 200mW for 30Ghz. Which incidentally... Is probably never going to be nice for modern AI.
It seems it will still use some digital process to encode and decode whatever is transmitted or received, I could be misreading it.
Long live analog!
Link is not loading, probably due to DNS ad-blocking being blocked. Can someone save it to archive?
Here is an alt link: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/researchers-build-f...