{"id":199086,"date":"2024-11-09T05:31:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/stochastic-thermodynamics-may-be-key-to-understanding-energy-costs-of-computation"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:31:53","slug":"stochastic-thermodynamics-may-be-key-to-understanding-energy-costs-of-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/stochastic-thermodynamics-may-be-key-to-understanding-energy-costs-of-computation","title":{"rendered":"Stochastic thermodynamics may be key to understanding energy costs of computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stochastic-thermodynamics-may-be-key-to-understanding-energy-costs-of-computation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two systems exist in thermal equilibrium if no heat passes between them. Computers, which consume energy and give off heat as they process information, operate far from thermal equilibrium. Were they to stop consuming energy\u2014say you let your laptop discharge completely\u2014they would stop functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two systems exist in thermal equilibrium if no heat passes between them. Computers, which consume energy and give off heat as they process information, operate far from thermal equilibrium. Were they to stop consuming energy\u2014say you let your laptop discharge completely\u2014they would stop functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}