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cwillu
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The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (...
> I always thought of reversible computing as a sort of platonic ideal that cannot truly exist in real life
It's been experimentally demonstrated. Practical or not, the effect is real.
qnleigh
4 months ago
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Where? If you mean that a computation was performed without creating any entropy, I'm skeptical. Surely some energy input was needed, and some energy was dissipated.
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It's been experimentally demonstrated. Practical or not, the effect is real.