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DoctorOetker • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I actually think we should be revisiting PMT photomultipler tube construction, and electron-"optical" matrix multiplication.

The annoying part of optical matrix multiplication is the conversion from electronic to optic and back.

Why not use electron-optics for matrix multiplication and use dynodes for amplification.


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pstuart • yesterday at 5:13 PM

While an intriguing concept, that doesn't sound like it could scale to the amount of "cores" needed to do the work. Or am I missing something?