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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.
They were too engrossed in if they could, to condsider if they should.
There are not 8 logic gates in a byte, there are 8 bits in a byte
Original us correct If the gate they built with the crabs is a D-flipflop.
Yeah this part really confused me
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?
BORN TO KILL
HELL IS A FUCK
🦀 Rip and Tear 1993
I am logic gate
16,039,018,500 SOLDIER CRABS
Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well
Do we need any more proof that crabs are indeed the ultimate lifeform?
Can a crab do a kickflip?
Dehydrate!
(For anyone unfamiliar with it, there’s a similar concept in Cixin Liu‘s Three Body series. Forgot which of the books.)
One of my coworkers calls taking a piss “Dehydrating” and it has stuck in my head since.
Also in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” and the following books!
The first one
At what framerate?
I’m not doing that math. One every 6 hours.
What if you overclock the crabs? Surely you could reach 1 per hour!
How do you overclock the crabs? Hot butter?
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.
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!
Based on the https://nand2tetris.org/ courses if you want an even deeper dive.
You can create memory by arranging logic gates in bistable or latch circuits.
If the logic gates can feed back onto themselves, you can build a simple flip flop that can store a bit.
Yeah but you need 2 logic gates for one bit so it would take 16 logic gates for a byte, not 8.
Crab-based neural network
Sentient AI: “OMG I’m a crab?!” Scientist: “Always have been…”
not A crab, no.
Rust has gone too far.
Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.
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.
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.
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.
when two swarms of crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities.
Hahahahahaha. I love nature
