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@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 4 months ago

they did the math 🦀

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they did the math 🦀

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  • @[email protected]
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    8•4 months ago

    At what framerate?

    • @[email protected]
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      9•4 months ago

      I’m not doing that math. One every 6 hours.

      • I Cast Fist
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        5•4 months ago

        What if you overclock the crabs? Surely you could reach 1 per hour!

        • @[email protected]
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          4•4 months ago

          How do you overclock the crabs? Hot butter?

  • I Cast Fist
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    10•4 months ago

    Do we need any more proof that crabs are indeed the ultimate lifeform?

    • DUMBASS
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      8•4 months ago

      Can a crab do a kickflip?

      • @[email protected]
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        1•4 months ago

        deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    18•4 months ago

    Too late, Pratchett and Ponder did it with ants, so it’s more micro

    Also what happens when the crabs die? Does the computer start recycling itself?

  • @[email protected]
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    BORN TO KILL

    HELL IS A FUCK

    🦀 Rip and Tear 1993

    I am logic gate

    16,039,018,500 SOLDIER CRABS

  • Rose
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    12•4 months ago

    Some people may be asking “is that a bit too many crabs?”

    The answer is that it’s an adequate amount of crabs. For that task at least.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•4 months ago

    Context: https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html

    • @[email protected]
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      10•4 months ago

      when two swarms of crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities.

      Hahahahahaha. I love nature

  • Mr Fish
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    92•4 months ago

    Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well

  • @[email protected]
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    22•4 months ago

    Crab-based neural network

    • Nora
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      7•4 months ago

      Sentient AI: “OMG I’m a crab?!” Scientist: “Always have been…”

      • @[email protected]
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        7•4 months ago

        not A crab, no.

  • Kairos
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    6•4 months ago

    Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•4 months ago

      It also equates 1 bit to 1 logic gate, which I’m not sure it’s possible to create memory using that few gates unless it’s read-only. All memory cell circuits I know of require at least 2 logic gates.

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        DRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.

        • @[email protected]
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          Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•4 months ago

      Why 640 thousand?

      It should be enough for anyone.

  • cally [he/they]
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    62•4 months ago

    There are not 8 logic gates in a byte, there are 8 bits in a byte

    • @[email protected]
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      Original is correct If the gate they built with it with is a D-flipflop.

    • @[email protected]
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      15•4 months ago

      Yeah this part really confused me

  • @[email protected]
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    36•4 months ago

    Dehydrate!

    (For anyone unfamiliar with it, there’s a similar concept in Cixin Liu‘s Three Body series. Forgot which of the books.)

    • @[email protected]
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      6•4 months ago

      One of my coworkers calls taking a piss “Dehydrating” and it has stuck in my head since.

    • @[email protected]
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      15•4 months ago

      The first one

    • @[email protected]
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      5•4 months ago

      Also in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” and the following books!

  • @[email protected]
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    4•4 months ago

    They were too engrossed in if they could, to condsider if they should.

  • @[email protected]
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    19•4 months ago

    How do you store a tweet in logic gates? Would you not need to construct crab based memory?

    And to play doom you would need a crab based cpu with much more functionality than the few logic gates they have working.

    • @[email protected]
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      26•4 months ago

      If you can have NAND-gates, a clock and some wires, you can build anything.

      Go visit https://nandgame.com/ to try it out yourself!

      • @[email protected]
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        Based on the https://nand2tetris.org/ courses if you want an even deeper dive.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•4 months ago

        I know what I’ll do in the next boring lecture!

    • @[email protected]
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      11•4 months ago

      You can create memory by arranging logic gates in bistable or latch circuits.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•4 months ago

      If the logic gates can feed back onto themselves, you can build a simple [flip flop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics\)) that can store a bit.

      • @[email protected]
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        6•4 months ago

        Yeah but you need 2 logic gates for one bit so it would take 16 logic gates for a byte, not 8.

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