Unconventional computing theories

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macadoum	Posted 2025-08-02 10:37:10 Hello all -:-: I stumbled across this wikipedia page by chance about unconventional computing theories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing It's just amazing how many calculations you can do in such different ways. I learned some interesting things and concepts from this page, for exemple the analog computers and water based calculations for solving equations :) There's also the Human Computing : dozens of people calculating in parallel to solve complex equations. But my favorite of all is something I didn't even know was possible: Ternary computing. Yes, it's possible to build a base 3 computer with three states -1, 0, 1 unlike the binary system where you can only have 0 and 1 states. The soviets built these kind of computers in the 50s but apparently ternary computing could be useful in AI LLMs models because of low consumption. Fascinating. Last edited on 2025-08-02 10:49:00

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macadoum

Posted 2025-08-02 10:37:10

Hello all -:-:

I stumbled across this wikipedia page by chance about unconventional computing theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing

It's just amazing how many calculations you can do in such different ways.

I learned some interesting things and concepts from this page, for exemple the analog computers and water based calculations for solving equations :)

There's also the Human Computing : dozens of people calculating in parallel to solve complex equations.

But my favorite of all is something I didn't even know was possible: Ternary computing. Yes, it's possible to build a base 3 computer with three states -1, 0, 1 unlike the binary system where you can only have 0 and 1 states.

The soviets built these kind of computers in the 50s but apparently ternary computing could be useful in AI LLMs models because of low consumption.

Fascinating.

Last edited on 2025-08-02 10:49:00