Trilemmas - Cell and Device

Cell trilemma - endurance - retention -speed

• Endurance – Write Speed Tradeoffs in Nonvolatile Memories Dmitri B. Strukov

• Persistent Memory provides Retention-as-a-Service --- (RaaS)

Device trilemma - energy efficiency - accuracy - speed?

• 2015? A universal tradeoff between power, precision and speed in physical communication Subhaneil Lahiri

• 2019 Trading-off Accuracy and Energy of Deep Inference on Embedded Systems: A Co-Design Approach Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi

We are motivated by the fact that many input examples are easy and can be classified correctly using simple DNNs and only a small fraction of hard inputs would need complex DNNs.

Blockchain trilemma - decentralisation - security - scalability

https://www.bitorb.com/campus/what-is-the-scalability-trilemma/

The impossible trinity - also known as the trilemma - is a concept in international economics which states that it is impossible to have all three of the following at the same time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity#:~:text=The%20impossible%20trinity%20(also%20known,an%20independent%20monetary%20policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem