The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

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We introduce free-energy machine (FEM), an efficient and general method for solving combinatorial optimization problems. FEM combines free-energy minimization from statistical physics with ...