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I’ve always wondered if the main computer in Star Trek has to be so big just to manage the turbolifts. Three dimensional elevators with multiple exits per level
by labster 5y ago
I’ve always wondered if the main computer in Star Trek has to be so big just to manage the turbolifts. Three dimensional elevators with multiple exits per level, probably prioritizing routes dynamically based on the passengers and the military alert level. Imagine the algorithms.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoI think it would fundamentally be a constraint based programming problem, eg the sudoku solvers, travelling salesman implementations, software that tells eg Amazon warehouses which parcels go in the van first based on both size and the route it’s planned so that the driver never had to dig all the parcels out to get the buried ones.