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What would software for analog computing look like? I don’t mean low level like potentiometer knobs. That’s like machine code I guess. But higher levels of abstraction. An example might be interferometry. Is the Boolean abstraction necessary for complex computing?
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I think back in the day analog computers were never really programmable. At most you could tweak some knobs to change weights on embodied differential equations etc.
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I guess I’m not phrasing the question well. I’m not talking about 1940s vintage vannevar bush style analog computing but a possible modern descendant capable of fairly general computation with real numbers and infinite precision (Shannon noise-limited) hardware.
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My favorite part about this is that, while analog computers predate digital computers by many centuries, we realized that we can model any analog process 'good enough' with digital computers and YOLOd that straight to the world we're in now
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