On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:04:18PM -0500, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Reminds me of those analog logic circuits which use "standard" digital > gates but represent analog values as durations during which a signal is > asserted, so you can implement the `max` and `min` functions with `or` > and `and` gates respectively. Neurons do it in a similar way (OK, OK, it is shot frequency, but hey). The other way around, and and or are just threshold functions. Cheers -- t