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from fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz on 15 Mar 19:12
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40055161

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nectar45@lemmy.zip on 15 Mar 19:20 next collapse

Crab-based neural network

crazyminner@lemmy.ml on 15 Mar 22:04 collapse

Sentient AI: ā€œOMG Iā€™m a crab?!ā€ Scientist: ā€œAlways have beenā€¦ā€

melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Mar 03:14 collapse

not A crab, no.

pancake@lemmygrad.ml on 15 Mar 19:26 next collapse

Rust has gone too far.

Mr_Fish@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 19:29 next collapse

Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well

GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Mar 19:54 next collapse

Context: phys.org/ā€¦/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social on 16 Mar 00:54 collapse

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

Hahahahahaha. I love nature

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 15 Mar 19:57 next collapse

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

xthexder@l.sw0.com on 15 Mar 23:33 next collapse

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

alt_xa_23@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 23:56 collapse

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.

xthexder@l.sw0.com on 16 Mar 04:13 collapse

Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I donā€™t know how youā€™d represent that with crabs. Maybe itā€™s possible.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 14:29 collapse

Why 640 thousand?

It should be enough for anyone.

brrt@sh.itjust.works on 15 Mar 20:14 next collapse

Dehydrate!

(For anyone unfamiliar with it, thereā€™s a similar concept in Cixin Liuā€˜s Three Body series. Forgot which of the books.)

benignintervention@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 20:16 next collapse

The first one

frigidaphelion@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 01:59 next collapse

Also in Adrian Tchaikovskyā€™s ā€œChildren of Timeā€ and the following books!

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 16 Mar 02:32 collapse

One of my coworkers calls taking a piss ā€œDehydratingā€ and it has stuck in my head since.

sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works on 15 Mar 20:37 next collapse

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.

splinter@lemm.ee on 15 Mar 20:47 next collapse

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

enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works on 15 Mar 22:50 next collapse

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

Go visit nandgame.com to try it out yourself!

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 16 Mar 12:40 next collapse

Based on the nand2tetris.org courses if you want an even deeper dive.

daw@feddit.org on 16 Mar 14:07 collapse

I know what Iā€™ll do in the next boring lecture!

GamingChairModel@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 20:59 collapse

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

chellomere@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 01:21 collapse

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

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee on 15 Mar 23:38 next collapse

At what framerate?

molten@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 00:04 collapse

Iā€™m not doing that math. One every 6 hours.

ICastFist@programming.dev on 16 Mar 00:32 collapse

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

molten@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 04:27 collapse

How do you overclock the crabs? Hot butter?

liquidparasyte@pawb.social on 15 Mar 23:42 next collapse

BORN TO KILL

HELL IS A FUCK

šŸ¦€ Rip and Tear 1993

I am logic gate

16,039,018,500 SOLDIER CRABS

callyral@pawb.social on 16 Mar 00:22 next collapse

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

vala@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 01:47 next collapse

Yeah this part really confused me

the_tab_key@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 13:25 collapse

Original is correct If the gate they built with it with is a D-flipflop.

ICastFist@programming.dev on 16 Mar 00:33 next collapse

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

dumbass@leminal.space on 16 Mar 02:09 collapse

Can a crab do a kickflip?

[deleted] on 16 Mar 14:17 collapse

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Geobloke@lemm.ee on 16 Mar 02:14 next collapse

Too late, Pratchett and Ponder did it with ants, so itā€™s more micro

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

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 16 Mar 13:05 next collapse

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

umbraroze@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 13:32 collapse

Some people may be asking ā€œis that a bit too many crabs?ā€

The answer is that itā€™s an adequate amount of crabs. For that task at least.