Programming language for p-bits?

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Currently, there is no dedicated programming language specifically designed for implementing processes that utilize probabilistic bits (p-bits). The discussion highlights that existing solutions primarily involve manual assembly and combination of spintronics hardware. A programming language for p-bits will only become relevant when the specialized hardware can be configured through computer instructions, similar to the D-Wave quantum systems. Until that point, any programming efforts will largely consist of mathematical descriptions tailored to specific problem setups.

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Is there yet a programming language that facilitates using p-bits? (p-bits are a hardware concept, with properties different than those of ordinary bits and also different than the qubits of quantum computing).
Is there yet a programming language for implementing processes that use probabilistic bits (p-bits)?
 
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Ars technica just had an article about probabilistic computing and from what I can gather from this and the linked abstract to a Nature paper (I have not read the paper itself, only the abstract) then a "solution" is still very much done by assembling and/or combining the spintronics hardware by hand.

I would imagine that a programming language for this technology only becomes "relevant" when the underlying special hardware somehow can be configured by computer instruction (like with the D-Wave). Until then I would guess the programming language is just the math describing the particular setup for a problem.
 

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