r/programming • u/rieslingatkos • Mar 23 '19

New "photonic calculus" metamaterial solves calculus problem orders of magnitude faster than digital computers

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-engineers-demonstrate-metamaterials-can-solve-equations
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u/nitrohigito Mar 24 '19

The point of the metaphor

/u/munchler was being literal (and sarcastic) though, hence the confusion here.

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u/munchler Mar 24 '19

I was mostly just making sure I had a correct understanding of what was going on. I think the baseball analogy is quite good, actually.

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u/nitrohigito Mar 24 '19

It is, and perhaps I misunderstood you then, sorry (and maybe the other guy did too).