alt.hn

7/19/2026 at 9:42:12 PM

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biggest-probabilistic-computer

by rbanffy

7/20/2026 at 4:20:23 AM

The original paper by Çamsarı and his team, also linked from the OP article [1].

[1] Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1,000,000 p-bits:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25313

by teleforce

7/20/2026 at 1:56:45 AM

> In contrast, p-bits flip between 0 or 1 with a tunable probability.

Isn't this basically an ADC (except the tunable probability isn't an input voltage)? Is this kinda-sorta a new form of analog computing?

by RiverCrochet

7/20/2026 at 1:08:50 AM

It's not mentioned in the article, but this hardware architecture may be better suited for brute-forcing password/crypto/key cracking than traditional computing architectures.

by anonymousiam

7/20/2026 at 7:21:03 AM

Is there a paper on that? I’m not I see how.

by rbanffy

7/20/2026 at 1:36:11 AM

Hari Seldon approves

by spiritplumber

7/20/2026 at 7:20:41 AM

Computational Sociodynamics will be a very promising tool.

by rbanffy

7/19/2026 at 11:56:26 PM

I absolutely love the photo of the computer at the top of the article. Not at all what I thought I was going to see from this headline.

by m-hodges

7/20/2026 at 3:28:37 AM

curious, where the guys who are working on mathematical models run their simulations these days.

by faangguyindia

7/20/2026 at 1:52:29 AM

we all know the answer is 42

by edu_do_cerrado

7/20/2026 at 9:23:39 AM

Best LLM ever.

by v3ss0n

7/20/2026 at 1:58:31 AM

When can I get an API key!

by dr_dshiv

7/20/2026 at 2:24:51 PM

I'm ignorant. What problems is this good at solving?

by bethekind