Have you read the blog lately! There's great stuff there. The Minimal Computer is kind of cool. It reminds me of the days of toggling boot programs in through the front panel. There are other good things on the blog as well. I bet you didn't even know that the Big Brain gave birth to 12 little brains recently. Read the blog and you will soon be assimilated into the Big Brain!!!
Honestly, I have read the blog, and I don't see how it's anything but wishful, if not delusional, thinking. The propeller is not a supercomputer. It never will be. The architecture is inappropriate for such scale of math.
BTW, that comparison favors the prop very heavily. If we consider floating-point performance, which is what most supercomputers do, the i7 is faster yet, and the prop completely falls on its face. OTOH, for an I/O or motion controller, the there isn't much better than the prop, especially when it comes to flexibility.
Back to the Big Brain, what does it do? He describes hardware, but he has never mentioned anything about any sort of software architecture at all. At this point, I rather doubt the thing can even boot up, given the lackluster communication from prop to prop.
The Minimal Computer is kind of cool. It reminds me of the days of toggling boot programs in through the front panel.
I have an 8080A computer that you enter programs in octal on a keypad in the corner. It's not useful, and doesn't even seem that educational anymore, unless I want to read the manuals to learn how to assemble code by hand.
Personally, I'd like to see it do something that hasn't already been done elsewhere. If you claim it already has, then please, point me to the documentation that says what it does and how it does it.
@Humanoido - I applaud your creativity! You continue to show an impressive amount of imagination! Keep it up sir.
I agree, you definitely express a very wild imagination and in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that. At the bare minimum, you occassionally make me smile, so therefore your content has value to me. Don't let anyone spoil your fun for you. Just as long as you enjoy whatever it is that you are doing, have fun, be happy, and never stop being creative.
I think the main concern is that some people may be reading your blog as if it was factual information. It should be obvious that much of what your saying is just creative fiction, but some people take things literally. Perhaps you should add a disclaimer to your blog that states that portions of it are fictional.
Imagination & Creativity
If a great deal of imagination is presented, it does not indicate anything less than the intention to explore science fact. Some have recognized the imagination and creativity of the Big Brain project and others have not. How can we better extrapolate from what we know now if we are afraid to stretch our minds?
Humanoido
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Have you read the blog lately! There's great stuff there. The Minimal Computer is kind of cool. It reminds me of the days of toggling boot programs in through the front panel. There are other good things on the blog as well. I bet you didn't even know that the Big Brain gave birth to 12 little brains recently. Read the blog and you will soon be assimilated into the Big Brain!!!
Dave
Prop@80Mhz = 160MIPS/265mW = 603 MIPS / watt
Core i7-3960x = 177,730MIPS/130W = 1367 MIPS / watt
BTW, that comparison favors the prop very heavily. If we consider floating-point performance, which is what most supercomputers do, the i7 is faster yet, and the prop completely falls on its face. OTOH, for an I/O or motion controller, the there isn't much better than the prop, especially when it comes to flexibility.
Back to the Big Brain, what does it do? He describes hardware, but he has never mentioned anything about any sort of software architecture at all. At this point, I rather doubt the thing can even boot up, given the lackluster communication from prop to prop.
I have an 8080A computer that you enter programs in octal on a keypad in the corner. It's not useful, and doesn't even seem that educational anymore, unless I want to read the manuals to learn how to assemble code by hand. What does that actually mean? He pulled off 12 35 prop chips and put them on their own boards?
Some people like his articles. It might make great advertising some day.
We probably shouldn't get too cranky about it if we don't understand it.
Paul
I agree, you definitely express a very wild imagination and in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that. At the bare minimum, you occassionally make me smile, so therefore your content has value to me. Don't let anyone spoil your fun for you. Just as long as you enjoy whatever it is that you are doing, have fun, be happy, and never stop being creative.
Bruce
I think the main concern is that some people may be reading your blog as if it was factual information. It should be obvious that much of what your saying is just creative fiction, but some people take things literally. Perhaps you should add a disclaimer to your blog that states that portions of it are fictional.
Dave
If a great deal of imagination is presented, it does not indicate anything less than the intention to explore science fact. Some have recognized the imagination and creativity of the Big Brain project and others have not. How can we better extrapolate from what we know now if we are afraid to stretch our minds?
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/p/disclaimer.html
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Tommy
chaos rules!
and put together a small photo gallery.
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/02/mc-photo-gallery.html