livcomp

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   by livcomp 4y ago

   Thanks for your thoughts and for taking a look. It's increasingly clear we're entering a time of architectural change, and I'm trying to help scout out lands ahead. It drives me crazy that after all these years, as far as I k
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   I wasn't, thanks. "SiliconSqueak", nice!
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   Maybe! One main challenge is the (at least) six-way local intertile communications. The T2s use BeagleBone Greens, which have two PRUs that I slice three ways each to do packet transfers. The RP2040 anyway has two 'PIO' instances
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   I accept that lots of folks don't and won't get this, but one specific problem I think is intractable via traditional means is: Actual computer security.
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   It is pretty confusing but what you got is about right. It's about building a whole new computational stack - hardware, software, and systems - that ditches the traditional requirement of deterministic hardware, and replaces that with
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   Can you ask a specific question, say, based on the Q&A?
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   We've got the ulam programming language custom tailored for the MFM, and the SPLAT spatial programming language built on top of ulam. I expect we'll want more languages or language features as we scale up, but we need to earn our
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   I'm a quantum skeptic when it comes to delivering supraclassical power in full systems at scale, and I expect biochemical computing machines will be likely useful sooner. But yeah, if quantum can one day deliver 'nearly locally de
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   by livcomp 4y ago

   Yay thanks this!
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    The most basic aspect is: Natural life does useful work, suggesting that artificial life might also. I'm like if you want a spreadsheet, fine, use a von Neumann machine. But if you want do inherently robust system control, that has a c
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    Hi folks. Thanks to akkartik for posting this and thanks to everybody who took a look. I do apologize that documentation is so scarce and scattered. To go a bit deeper, for hacker types I recommend https://ojs.aaai.org/index
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    http://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php (but it's having cert problems at the moment) https://github.com/elenasa/ULAM/wiki (discord: https://discord.gg/rBV6Y6sWNY )
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    I can understand the outsider art take.. I'm exploring a style of computing that undercuts so many deeply-embedded design assumptions (e.g., CPU, RAM, deterministic execution) that it's a big lift even for people who really want t
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    The MFM and ULAM repositories are reasonably legit, providing the simulation engine and the compiler respectively. FWIW, there are Ubuntu packages at ppa:ackley/mfm. I apologize if you found the T2Demos repository, yeah, that's a
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    by livcomp 4y ago

    It's indefinitely scalable exactly in the sense that a machine on this architecture can be made bigger as long as you can keep providing power, cooling, real estate, and tiles. There is no head node, no unique tile addresses, no global