there are 8 logic gates in a byte
uh. no? a logic gate isn’t a bit. you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop, but the core logic here is flawed
Right? Even if it weren’t, this only calculates how many crabs it would take to store Doom, not run it.
No mention of fps or latency, authors clearly not gamers.
Imagine some Smash Bros players who get pissy about 16.6ms playing on a CrabCPU with 13s latency…
Authors never said anything about gaming, the tweet did
smash keys spend 15:30 delay in processing to go make tendies and hunny mussy return in time to watch mayhem ensue
I see no downsides to this.
Of course they’re not gamers, they have brains.
you can store a single bit with a pair of not gates to make a flip flop
Isn’t it a pair of NAND gates? You can make anything with NAND gates.
Like this:
You can also do it with NOT gates. The driver needs to overpower the gates to change the bit and then it acts like a D flip flop target than an RS flip flop like NAND gates will. But that’s generally how they’re actually made. SRAM generally looks like this:
The side transistors are called access transistors; they’re there so you can selectively read/write, but aren’t needed to store the bit.So here’s some bad math. 160 crabs per NAND gate / byte. Doom’s original file size is roughly 2.39MB (I couldn’t find an actual source for this but it’s touted all over the web).
So 2390000 bytes * 160 crabs is 382400000 crabs.
So you can run doom on 382.4 million crabs
Edit: store, not run
you can
runstore doom2 NAND gates are only a bit. You need 8 of those for a byte, that is 8 * 160 = 1280 crabs. For Doom you need 1280 * 2390000 = 3059200000 = 3059.2 million crabs
yes, tired brain hiccup :)
From the paper the picture is of an and gate.
https://wpmedia.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/13/2018/02/20-2-2.pdfThey’ve got diagrams of OR and AND gates with the crabs.
I feel like they would need a NOT gate to do anything meaningful, which obviously isn’t possible. You can’t have zero crabs going in with crabs coming out. Without a NOT gate I don’t think they can do much in the way of traditional computing - you probably can’t run Doom on any number of crabs (although I’d love to be proven wrong).
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Q: So what do you do for a living?
A: “I am only the greatest scientist of our age, harnessing the computational might of soldier crabs! While others tinker with mere circuits, I’ve unlocked the organic potential of crustacean logic gates. The future, my friend, isn’t in machines, but in the scuttle of millions of tiny legs! Mwahahaha!”
*billions of tiny legs
Scientist answer is part by Chatgpt. Maybe i should have enabled wolfram.
Is this rust?
Everything returns to crabs, as it must
Brb working on rust backend to compile to crabs.
UAC now stands for United Aerospace Crab
I thought it should be User Access Crab
Crabs are Turing complete now? I gotta get me an STD!
Cray Fish Computer Corporation. I always wondered what powered these old super computers.
Now I’m thinking why they called that chess one Deep Blue…
