THE VIDEO SHELF · analog computing
Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)
Veritasium explains why analog computing may suit AI workloads, covering old analog computers, The Analog Thing and Mythic's analog chips that use flash memory for neural network inference. It argues digital hardware is hitting limits.
Why HN readers recommended it
Treated as the accessible reference on analog computing for neural nets, especially the Mythic AI segment.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Veritasium
- Topic
- analog computing
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Agreed. I've never really gotten into neural networks, most of the times I start but get distracted or bored/lost and suddenly enough a Vertiasium video pops up and about everything just slots into place, stuff you've glossed over or heard before just make sense. [VIDEO] …
iKlsR on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood?basicly, we can do things like matrix operations and differntial equations using specialized hardware that performs computation over analog signals rather than buidlign discrete systems. the end result is that we dont' need anywhere near the level of compute to do the job as its …
cultofmetatron on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Ask HN: What is your take on carbon emissions of Machine LearningGreat Veritasium video on YouTube about analog neuromorphic architectures and their promise for lower-power operations: [VIDEO]
beambot on Hacker News · 2022-06
In Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers
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