[HN Gopher] Show HN: Ternary Computer System
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       Show HN: Ternary Computer System
        
       Hi everyone! I'm an Italian programmer, very passionate about
       computer architecture. Some time ago I realized that some
       architectures potentially much superior to the classic VonNeumann,
       have been forgotten because there were no reliable technical
       solutions to implement them. One of these architectures
       particularly struck me and it is the "Dataflow architecture", in
       which there is no Program counter, but the instructions are
       executed in real contemporaneity whenever the operands are
       available. In trying to find a technical solution that implements
       this type of architecture effectively (spoiler: yes, maybe I
       succeeded but I still have to test the real correct functioning!) I
       realized that this solution works more than well with three logical
       states. And at this point I discovered that perhaps it is better to
       implement a CPU with three states (ternary) instead of a white one.
       This as a first step to realize my dataflow solution. Obviously a
       world has opened up to me regarding ternary CPUs, I have discovered
       not only that they are the best solution implemented for a
       computing device, but also that an increasing number of university
       and researcher papers are dealing with them in recent times. This
       is also thanks to the enormous potential compared to normal CPUs;
       lower circuit complexity (and also lower consumption and lower heat
       production) but at the same time the truly formidable information
       representation capabilities compared to binary counterparts! So
       here I am creating this ternary CPU and all the hardware and
       software to be able to use it immediately. In the link you have
       found some other details, but obviously for questions, suggestions
       or anything else you can insert your comment here!
        
       Author : claudio_mos
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-12-09 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ternary-computing.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ternary-computing.com)
        
       | lawls wrote:
       | This is something I'm convinced we need for integer weights in
       | LLMs.
        
         | claudio_mos wrote:
         | Interesting! I am not familiar with how integer weights work
         | for LLMs, can you give me more details?
        
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