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by wwalker3 5778 days ago
I think it is likely we will see more of these. But this probability chip sounds more like an analog computer than what D. E. Shaw has done.

The Lyric web site says that they "model relationships between probabilities natively in the device physics", where D. E. Shaw's Anton chip sounds like it uses traditional logic gates the same way a GPU does.

P.S. Sorry, I downvoted you by accident -- I meant to upvote you.