Analog Versus Digital: Extrapolating from Electronics to Neurobiology
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 10 (7) , 1601-1638
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089976698300017052
Abstract
We review the pros and cons of analog and digital computation. We propose that computation that is most efficient in its use of resources is neither analog computation nor digital computation but, ...Keywords
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