There are not 8 logic gates in a byte, there are 8 bits in a byte
they did the math 🦀
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callyral@pawb.social 2 months ago
vala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah this part really confused me
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Original us correct If the gate they built with the crabs is a D-flipflop.
liquidparasyte@pawb.social 2 months ago
BORN TO KILL HELL IS A FUCK 🦀 Rip and Tear 1993 I am logic gate 16,039,018,500 SOLDIER CRABS
brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 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.)
benignintervention@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The first one
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
One of my coworkers calls taking a piss “Dehydrating” and it has stuck in my head since.
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” and the following books!
nectar45@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Crab-based neural network
Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 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?
sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
Based on the nand2tetris.org courses if you want an even deeper dive.
daw@feddit.org 2 months ago
I know what I’ll do in the next boring lecture!
splinter@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can create memory by arranging logic gates in bistable or latch circuits.
umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Do we need any more proof that crabs are indeed the ultimate lifeform?
dumbass@leminal.space 2 months ago
Can a crab do a kickflip?
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
At what framerate?
molten@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not doing that math. One every 6 hours.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
What if you overclock the crabs? Surely you could reach 1 per hour!
pancake@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Rust has gone too far.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 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
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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 2 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.
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why 640 thousand?
It should be enough for anyone.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They were too engrossed in if they could, to condsider if they should.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well