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by adamnemecek 3122 days ago
Because you lose integration and differentiation in hw. You can also model signals "natively".
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You actually get those benefits, differentiation and integration, in the usual classical analog circuits, but, except for a few kinds of analog tricks, they’ve not outperformed their digital counterparts in precision, accuracy, or speed. You can make for neat demos, like wiring up integrators to solve the Lorenz attractor equations to make a nice oscilloscope plot, but the circuits fall short practically for anything more difficult.
I'm well aware. Those that you are talking about are electric though which brings a whole class of issues. I think that photonic might work very well.