[FRIAM] thermodynamics of gambling demons

[Steve Smith]

programming/problem domain aside, what a "blast from the past" with
(mostly?) deprecated toolkits/chains/standards:

    /SunOS vs Solaris, VGA output, TCL, PERL, C vs C++, and OMG Forth!/

Steampunk or maybe Dieselpunk era hardware/software!   A Clackers' delight!

On 4/23/21 11:44 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Possibly of interest
>   
>   https://qiskit.org/events/physics-of-computation/
>
> There was one of these at SFI for a while, if memory serves.  I never used it.
>
>   http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/im/cam8/
>   https://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/cam8.pdf
>
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>
> On 4/23/21 7:20 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>> https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.080603
>> <https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.080603>
>>
>> If the demon "decides" to quit while it's ahead, it "wins", and the 
>> entropy of the universe decreases.
>>
>> -- rec --
>>
>> via 
>> https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startle
>> -scientists-20210422/ 
>> <https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startl
>> e-scientists-20210422/>
>>
>>
> I was totally captivated by the Reversible Computing work presented by Margolus, Fredkin, Toffoli in the 1983 Cellular Automata conference at Los Alamos.   I was brand new and easily impressed by some measures but the breadth of work presented during that week was amazing.   Even though I stayed "in" the orbit of all that work on through the first decade of the ALife movement,   I always felt I was pursuing a mirage "just over the horizon".   My day job never aligned with this work so the available time/horsepower I had to pursue it was limited.
>
> I am not surprised to see that Quantum Computing/Information has added it's own twist, I'd be curious if Marcus (or anyone else) has some first-hand perspective) on this.
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9503016
>
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/thesis.pdf
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball_computer
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_philosophy
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics#Pancomputationalism
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