Interesting hardware and computer intellect

[Sridhar Ayengar]

woodelf wrote:
> Jason McBrien wrote:
> 
>> It's genetic/cellular automata style computation. It cycles through 
>> various
>> logic configurations until it finds the optimal setup. The bad news is 
>> that
>> it means that the "compile" cycles could take a while. The good news 
>> is once
>> an optimal algorithm is found, it's saved for later. This scheme should
>> theoretically work well for compute-intensive operations, especially 
>> those
>> requiring lots of variables, such as DSP and fluid dynamics.
> 
> They have had that years ago -- And star treks's computers even had 
> blinking lights.
> But oddly you made me wonder about a FPGA system can handle the problem
> since most problems off hand don't seem to be integer math, rather floating
> point of some sort. I just don't trust the words computer science uses
> not the algorithms.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that last sentence.

Peace...  Sridhar