Fabricational Capacity

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Fabricational Capacity

• MAS 960 collective
• N. Gershenfeld, J. Jacobson, S. Kirkpatrick, L.
  Lafuente, Y. Maguire, B. Vigoda, D. Dalrymple, G.
  Popescu, K. Chuang, M. Baca, A. Sphunt, A. Knaian

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Foundations
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Shannon on Digital Communication
Source
Encoder
Achievable
Noisy Channel
Non Achievable
After Shannon
Before Shannon
Channel capacity
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Von Neumann on Digital Computation
Shannons theory applied to digital computation
Reliable computation using unreliable components
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ENIAC
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Von Neumann on Self-Reproducing Automata
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The Problem
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Final Product
Raw Material
Process
Space Time Power Resources
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• Trade-offs
• Thresholds
• Feasibility
• Efficiency of the implementation

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Towards a Solution
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A quantitative proposal
Thermodynamics-based metric
Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Some working examples
Freezing (Crystal manufacturing)
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Some working examples
Master DVD production
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Some working examples
Car manufacturing (River Rouge plant)
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Some working examples
C. Elegans
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A CA approach

• Transition probabilities
• Uncertainty models unreliability
• Maps to effective equilibrium Statistical
  Mechanics models

Time
Space