The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
6 人推荐 · 跨 5 个月 · 2021–2025
中文导读
Veritasium 溯源模拟计算史：从安提基特拉机械、开尔文勋爵的潮汐预测机，一路讲到二战火控系统与现代模拟技术，揭示机器如何在没有数字离散信号的情况下进行连续运算。
为什么 HN 推它
在探讨模拟计算、光子芯片、AI 专用硬件以及机械计算机演进时极具启发性的高分历史纪录片，开尔文潮汐机部分的展现尤其精妙。
「他前一个视频对此做了非常详尽的拆解，观感极其震撼。」HN 网友原话：His video before this one[1] goes into detail on that, and it was incredible.
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Veritasium traces analog computers from the Antikythera mechanism and Kelvin's tide-predicting machines to fire control and modern analog approaches. It explains how these machines computed continuously rather than digitally.
Recommended in threads on analog computing, photonic chips, AI hardware and tide prediction as an engaging history of Kelvin's machines.
HN 上的提及
There is an upcoming Veritasium video about the "comeback of analogue computers".
It's quite fascinating how they even managed to do basic Fourier transforms without electricity
The author mentions they were inspired by the Veritasium video on the same topic
The first one was
His video before this one[1] goes into detail on that, and it was incredible.