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		cwillu 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (... > I always thought of reversible computing as a sort of platonic ideal that cannot truly exist in real life It's been experimentally demonstrated. Practical or not, the effect is real.

qnleigh 40 days ago [–]

Where? If you mean that a computation was performed without creating any entropy, I'm skeptical. Surely some energy input was needed, and some energy was dissipated.

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