alt Hacker NewsTo be fair - I'd be more shocked by the result that a physical process can solve NP complete problems.
If that were true, I'd have expected Mother Nature to have exploited it a long time ago.
To be fair - I'd be more shocked by the result that a physical process can solve NP complete problems.
If that were true, I'd have expected Mother Nature to have exploited it a long time ago.
It's amazing what some physical processes can do. During the years I worked with laser physicists, I learned that passive optical systems can do crazy things, such as Fourier transforms.