Calling computer science Oppos

"DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever" (eg6) 02/15/2020 at 16:15 • Filed to: None

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Is a transmission’s valve body technically a computer?

Nom De Plume > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:16

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Is an ant hive technically a computer?

dogisbadob > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:17

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looks like a cool maze

Cé hé sin > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:20

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No, it’s just witchcraft.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:22

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Well, 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:22

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Well, since it doesn’t “store state” and basically has no memory, I’m going with “NO”.

One could conceivably make an argument that it’s a form of specialized analog computer— er, maybe... but the heavy lifting is in the valves and the control system behind the valves. The best I can come up with is the valve body being “the wiring” but not the actual computer.

YMMV

jimz > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:32

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it’s more or less a “finite state machine.”  it can be in one of a finite number of states depending on finite lists of input and output conditions. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:33

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Just because it looks like circuit boards doesn't mean it is

My bird IS the word > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 16:37

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it would be a circuit, not a computer. it isn’t calculating anything. It’s closer to a chip.

Future Heap Owner > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/15/2020 at 19:00

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What Bird Is the Word said. It’s certainly computing something, but since it’s fixed-function and not programmable, it’s only    a simple hydraulic circuit and not a computer. Computers are defined by their programmability.

coqui70 > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 02/16/2020 at 00:30

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Not a full computer, but for a specific input it provides a specific non-variable output so a calculator.

sn4cktimes > Nom De Plume 02/16/2020 at 13:28

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There’s a science fiction series I read where a bunch of virally  intelligence boosted spiders use ant colonies as computers, and continue to do so even as they develop space ships. They eventually contact a race of intelligence boosted octopuses and all hell breaks loose. Very cool.