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Lofn

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Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« on: April 15, 2010, 08:59:25 pm »

I'm not sure if this is the right forum or if this has been posted before, but... Holy crap.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/15/colossal-turing-mach.html
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2010, 09:22:03 pm »

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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2010, 09:24:45 pm »

Being a computer engineer, I could probably build a much bigger and better version. Sadly, I'm not motivated enough to do so. But still impressive anyways.
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2010, 10:43:27 pm »

Really, there's two hard parts to building a Dwarven Computer. 

The first is knowing circuit design well enough to get those logic gates to actually do something.

The second is maintaining your sanity while assigning thousands of gear-linkages. 
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2010, 12:37:40 am »

Third, keeping the fortress from going into a tantrum spiral while hooking it all up :P It's easy to forget about the guys who actually have to build the thing.
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2010, 01:06:51 am »

I suspect any of us here could, with enough internet searching and asking around, build one. People with the sheer insane OCD and free time to build it... not so much.

You'll be revered for the rest of your DF life, of course. Now get cracking, people!  ;)
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2010, 02:50:21 am »

Being a computer engineer, I could probably build a much bigger and better version. Sadly, I'm not motivated enough to do so. But still impressive anyways.
Without being a computer engineer, I could probably build a much bigger and better version. Sadly, I can't stand assigning tens of thousands of linkages. But still impressive anyways.
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2010, 05:18:23 am »

Now that dwarves invented computer they can start programming DF for it.
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2010, 06:48:37 am »

Very nice. That amount of mechanics scares me though!

Being a computer engineer, I could probably build a much bigger and better version. Sadly, I'm not motivated enough to do so. But still impressive anyways.
Without being a computer engineer, I could probably build a much bigger and better version. Sadly, I can't stand assigning tens of thousands of linkages. But still impressive anyways.

I could build a better version than either of you, simply because you both pale to insignificance when compared to my glory.
So nyah.  ;)
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Re: Turing-complete Dwarf Fort
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2010, 07:35:17 am »

Now that dwarves invented computer they can start programming DF for it.
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Oh man. The fact that these will probably be possible at some point, one way or another, is truly mind-boggling.

EDIT: DEAR GOD. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/User:BaronW
« Last Edit: April 16, 2010, 08:26:51 am by Raz »
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