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Because physical systems contain more atoms than computers can store, physics requires reducing their full dimensional and informational representation to one that fits computational limits.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“In physics,”
“as you know, we start with more atoms than we could ever store on a computer. So clearly we'll have to go from.”
“the original number of dimensions and bits that represent a system to the number of bits we can fit in the computer.”Play from 5:44Report a misattribution
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