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When you said "play an algorithm", it reminded me of this idea I had where I wanted to play back the execution of a running program and map the assembly or IL t
by sixdimensional 11y ago
When you said "play an algorithm", it reminded me of this idea I had where I wanted to play back the execution of a running program and map the assembly or IL to notes/frequencies/instruments/sound. Literally, "playing the code as if it were music".
Then I had this strange thought - what if you could monitor the cacophony of your running systems, and detect a problem, or a certain event, just by the presence of a particular audio theme or tune. I bet an infinite loop would be pretty annoying and obvious. Just as long as the server getting overloaded doesn't sound like getting rick-rolled ("Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley).
- unimpressive 11y agoPeople did this with old computers that emitted lots of radio interference like the PDP-1. It was possible to debug in exactly the way you're describing by listening to a radio held up to the CPU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKd-TlYGuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKd-TlYGuA