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An explanation for the Landauer's principle
Has anyone understood the Landauer's principle? What is the current status?
In specific, is there a theoretical derivation of the Landauer's Principle?(not the heuristic one based on Salizard's ...
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how does human brain compare to a modern CPU in energy per bit?
Can someone compare the energy efficiency of human brain as a computer ? What is the energy in joules / flop ? may be some reasonable assumptions on the computational load of common tasks such as ...
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How efficient is a desktop computer?
As I understand it (and admittedly it's a weak grasp), a computer processes information irreversibly (AND gates, for example), and therefore has some minimum entropy increase associated with its ...
