Computer Built in Minecraft Has RAM, Performs Division
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That is awesome. I remember the old computer that was put on here a while back, and I remember it ran painfully slow. This fellow here really had a stroke of genius when he decided to build vertically.
I really don't know much about computer workings, but this is still really impressive. Even from a purely aesthetic standpoint, this is a thing of beauty.
I really don't know much about computer workings, but this is still really impressive. Even from a purely aesthetic standpoint, this is a thing of beauty.
Speaking as someone who has no idea what he was saying, most of the way through the explaination I was like...
"Stop talking and make it do maths, dammit!"
I don't care if it's less effiecient than the real first computers; this, sir, is
BLOODY AMAZING!
"Stop talking and make it do maths, dammit!"
I don't care if it's less effiecient than the real first computers; this, sir, is
BLOODY AMAZING!
Wait, this has been don before. Whats the differance between this and that one made out of dirt blocks that streches into the horizon?
Congratulations, you have just divided by zero. For performing this amazing feat, the universal sub-conscious will now reset existence on the date of 12/21/12. The universal sub-conscious simply cannot wait to see how long it take the next cycle to figure it out! LOL.
Inception this shit, I want a computer inside a computer inside a computer!
Also I'm a bit worried we're going to start playing God and we'll create sentient life inside this computer, it'll realise it's not real and try and escape and then when it does...MY GOD.
Also I'm a bit worried we're going to start playing God and we'll create sentient life inside this computer, it'll realise it's not real and try and escape and then when it does...MY GOD.
Woah, that computer is so huge that I think...
*Puts on Sunlasses*
Minecraft is in the STONE age of computers!
*Puts on Sunlasses*
Minecraft is in the STONE age of computers!
Why? Why is this being done? Do you have any idea how impractical a computer like this is? Its running in units measures in seconds when normal computers run in units measured in milliseconds! All you guys wanted to play "minecraft in minecraft" do you know how long it would take for the system to render even a single screen? It would take months to simply boot up the game. Ah god, ah this is so stupid.
I respect guys who are so determines to do this but this is doing something for the sake of doing it and has no practical application. God, when all you have is a hammer needs to be replace with when all you have is Minecraft. There are better ways to build some things you know people. Lets not turn Minecraft into our all purpose build engine when we have other avenues. God, Minecraft is turning into a singularity. Easy to build != practical or the right way to do it. Ah, this is giving me a headache.
I respect guys who are so determines to do this but this is doing something for the sake of doing it and has no practical application. God, when all you have is a hammer needs to be replace with when all you have is Minecraft. There are better ways to build some things you know people. Lets not turn Minecraft into our all purpose build engine when we have other avenues. God, Minecraft is turning into a singularity. Easy to build != practical or the right way to do it. Ah, this is giving me a headache.
Sort of. A computer is built upon the concept of the Turing Machine. To water down a lot of details, basically one creates an electrical circuit who's properties change depending upon an input. The "rules" of the system, as in the fundamental rule that governs the operation of a computer is that a given segment can either operate as a wire (it lets current flow) or as a block (it greatly resists electrical flow). Using transistors (tiny devices that can be altered to allow current flow or resist it based upon an input current) one can construct very simple devices that allow for certain fundamental operations. For example AND (if you have current in one line AND current in another line you output current. Otherwise you do not) and OR (if you have current in one line OR another line or even both you output current).Jabberwock xeno said:
These relatively simple devices are called Turing machines. If one combines large numbers of Turing machines they can do more complex tasks like add a pair of numbers or store information for later retrieval. Once complete, such a system of Turing machines becomes itself, a universal Turing machine. Simply put, given sufficient access to memory and given sufficient time anything that can be computed can be computed by a universal Turing machine.
Now, because a Turing machine is little more than a device that reads an input and produces an output according to a table of rules, it can take an enormous number of forms. In the simplest form, a person could themselves follow a very simple table of rules to produce such an output and act, themselves, as a Turing machine.
It's only a small step before someone grabs zombies and makes Deep Rot (http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12936417/).
On behalf of all comp-sci majors everywhere... this is not hard, this is not brilliant, this is not even impressive. Creating a CPU within any system that allows for basic logic simulation is nothing special. You'd do it in 200-level courses as part of any comp-sci degree.
The fact that he did it in Minecraft is no more or less noteworthy than any other massive timesink project done in Minecraft. This project is no more special than, say, a giant penis or a scale model of the Enterprise.
The fact that he did it in Minecraft is no more or less noteworthy than any other massive timesink project done in Minecraft. This project is no more special than, say, a giant penis or a scale model of the Enterprise.
