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Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (2019)
- dang 5y agoOne past thread: Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525534 - Nov 2018 (72 comments) Kind of related but not directly: MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843255 - Jan 2019 (6 comments) The Water Computer (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846599 - Jan 2019 (26 comments) MONIAC, a hydraulic computer that modeled the economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812721 - July 2015 (6 comments) MONIAC: an analogue computer using fluidic logic to model an economy. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081 - Aug 2012 (1 comment)
- bombcar 5y agoIt’s Terry Pratchet’s Glooper. https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoClose, but as detailed in your link, Glooper is closer to MONIAC - links by dang in sibling to your comment.
- rzzzt 5y agoSteve Mould has a video where he built logic gates using water: https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw
- rsj_hn 5y agoThis reminds me of the Moniac and hydraulic keynesianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_macroeconomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_macroeconomics
- stitched2gethr 5y agoSome people are just on a whole different level.
- self_buddliea 5y agoImagine using the metal of a T-1000 as the 'water', and another T-1000 as the 'computer'.
- mannykannot 5y agoSomewhat off-topic, but the philosopher Tim Maudlin conceived of a water-based Turing machine for a thought experiment. https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/80-300/madlin1989.pdf https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/80-300/madlin1989.pdf
- henvic 5y agoToo many leaks.