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uoaei on May 24, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent

I believe one example would be quantum annealers. Where "programming" involves setting the right initial conditions and allowing thermodynamics to bring you to an optimum via relaxation.

mikewarot on May 24, 2024 [–]

Dwave[1] does compute that way already.

[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/

kaelan123 on May 24, 2024 | [–]

One key difference is the system is entirely classical (not quantum) and noise-resilient (see the last appendix).

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