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they did the math 🦀

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well

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  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • vala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah this part really confused me

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    • the_tab_key@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 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

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  • 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.)

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    • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The first one

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • nectar45@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crab-based neural network

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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    • 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!

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      • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • daw@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • splinter@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can a crab do a kickflip?

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At what framerate?

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    • molten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • pancake@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rust has gone too far.

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  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why 640 thousand?

      It should be enough for anyone.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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