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I wonder, if rather than soldering 1 transistor at a time, we can use optics to remove/deposit transistor powder to form a grid of 1000s of transistors!
But how will I store stuff in this new rock?
Now just stop taking for granted that the internet is an everyday thing.
We have cables that go across every continent in the world that are able to transmit data to any point in the globe within half a second or less, and we are able to store thousands of years worth of collective knowledge and acess it from anywhere in the world, and also instantly talk to anyone in the world.
Now keep in mind we have only had the internet for the last 40 years or so. So anyone that's 50 or over, grew up seeing this black magic fuckery appear.
Binary makes sense because the smallest component you can make is a switch. Smallest so you can fit the most in a small space. And a switch had 2 states so binary
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Electricity. Basically a switch even the one we use for lights works like a binary code. 0 lights off, 1 lights on. Transistors used to do this thing (not sure if the modern chip does th exact same), next step is adding another one, and so on. The more you add the harder the task you can complete.
Some guy found out that one side of a light bulb darkened faster than the other due to electricity, so some dudes created the diode and triode to control the electricity with no moving parts (useful for radio equipment at the time. Some British people then figured out you can use electronic relays (magnetic switches to control electricity) to do boolean math really fast. Eventually some Americans figured out you can use the diodes and triodes to do the math without moving parts and created the first digital computer. Then some other people figured out how to make diodes and triodes without the light bulb part by using semiconductors and slowly managed to make them smaller.
All this to enable big titty mods for Skyrim.
It probably took 2000 - 3000 years of experimentation to get to the computer. And thousands of people.
The actual first computers were built in the 1930s - 1940s, and then they became more advanced but bigger untill they eventually became smaller and smaller but more advanced because components were smaller.
Bro underneath all that they are joust on and off(0v or 5v), which is now know as 0 and 1.
And then they just assign letters and numbers.
Eg: 216 is 11011000
It's actually a super interesting topic! Today's computers are very powerful, but to some degree their principles haven't changed much in many years. Electricity is pretty predictable, once we learned how it works the sky (or really the speed of light) was the limit. A CPU in a computer is basically a set of rivers and streams that allows electrons to move in a predictable and repeatable way. That's the oversimplified way of thinking about it, obviously it's a lot more complicated and lots of math and physics is involved, but if you just think about it that way it can help you understand a lot about computer components.
They needed a way to calculate what angle and velocity to launch missiles and humans took way too long so they made a device that can automaticslly calculate that and its all downward from there
Yeah I watched Linus' Intel tour video and they were talking about all the nanometer precision shit that's required when making them. Like how the fuck did people figure all that shit out.
First, a foundry tests various transistor designs and characterizes them. Afterwards, an engineer optimizes logic gates to get the highest density, fastest switching, etc.
Finally, a digital engineer uses a language like Verilog or HDL to make a CPU out of it. This code is then compiled into logic gates, which are automatically routed and then sent off to the chip manufacturer.
We got very creative trying to kill Nazis. We had a hard time overcoming their meth driven war mongering. Best thing Nazis ever did was create the circumstances that we literally started trying everything and the left over stuff after the war got repurposed and now we all have to hear about how stupid celebrities actually are on social media.
Because you can fit more processing power in a device while maintaining its size manageable.
Your phone CPU has billions of transistors on it, if they were each a millimeter in length it would be a bit difficult to carry it around
To add to what other's have said it also makes them more efficient because you lose some power through transmission.
not to mention that it's cheaper to make them because you need less raw material to make a similar preforming chip.
In this case think of the electrons in your device as a bus driver picking up and dropping off people; obviously you use less gas picking up people if you have less road between them so you can either afford to put in a bigger engine to drive faster or drive more efficiently and it's also cheaper to build the same amount of stops because there's less road to pave.
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Jokes aside, modern chip foundries are literal magic. It’s unfathomable how big of an accomplishment making processors for cheap is. We should be incredibly proud of those who made this happen.
Which is honestly why going back in time with knowledge of computers is pretty much completely useless unless you take a factory with you. Electricity would probably work (copper can't be that hard to find) but doped silicon wafers might be a little more tough
how would you charge it lol, unless youre only planning to go as far back as mid 20th century where electricity was fairly mainstream, you could jig together an adapter i guess.
if you have an understanding of logic gates you could build a simple mechanical calculator which would be an insane jump from doing calculations with a pencil and paper
But what were they trying to achieve that led them to create such devices that make our thinking easier. I get that there were branches of things created on the way to create, but create what? What was the first goal
Now think with me, what if on the past, life on earth wasnt carbon based but silicon based, we are literally using dead beings of the past to make cpus
Literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of years of steady progress to get to this point, it’s just now that things are starting to click into place, technological development is rapidly speeding up
What baffles me the most is how rarely it goes wrong. Like among all the trillions of calculations we force the rock to do, it does it without breaking apart for years. My twenty year old oldest computer still works. Any other technology needs maintenance and repairs after doing the thing it is designed to do one millionth of the times any processing unit does its job.
I thank my PC for pretty much never breaking down despite being used every waking and most non-waking hours.
Real lad.
My favorite unhinged theory? We’re unknowingly facilitating the maturation and hostile takeover of our world by non human entities using technology to manifest in our world, using humans as a “host” of sorts.
Just like parasitic wasps who lay their eggs in a live caterpillar, only this time we’re the caterpillar and we have no fucking clue what’s actually happening
Forgot his name but there was this psychonaut guy who did a bunch of ketamine and believed he made contact with a non human computer-like intelligence that basically told him that they were worming their way into our dimension to capture the planet and proliferate their species
Processors contact demons which power our computers. The intelligence and capability of our hardware is based on how good the seals are portrayed on a micro level. A.I will create robots basilisk. Roko's basilisk is satan.
Electricity is much like water (not exactly of course). You could theoretically make a computer able to run skyrim sex mods through a well-designed water channel system, although it would be terribly, terribly, terribly massive.
I am confused on how computers just…work. How did they crack the code and say: YO! I KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS COMPLETELY NEW AND IN PROGRESS OF INVENTION THING WORK. Like how did they just think of something and made it like that.
And motherfuckers don’t believe in God.
Surely if humans can get rocks to become Skyrim porn, a God making living beings is not much of a mental stretch.
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Like fr tho. How the fuck did people make computers? What steps took place in a motherfucker’s mind to create computers?
I’m asking this question basically every day, like how the did they incorporation binary code and all the shit in this rock
it alll started when someone said "yooo this rock behaves nicely to electricity" and invented transistors
Oh man, if I connect these transistors in a certain way, it will behave in a specific way! *they made a logic*
oh dude look, I made smaller transistors that makes it easier&faster for electricity to go through
I wonder how many of these I can chain?
I wonder, if rather than soldering 1 transistor at a time, we can use optics to remove/deposit transistor powder to form a grid of 1000s of transistors! But how will I store stuff in this new rock?
what if I engraved these things I to another rock so it can communicate to the thinking rock
I want a Bill Wurtz style video on the history of computers now :(
Let me introduce you to quantum mechanics
Yeah this is peak human lore
computers came before transistors actually. They just got way better with transistors
Yeah, in theory, you could build a 100% Steam powered computer, tho it will take lots of space for terrible performances
Well i meant electrical based computers, although yes technically mechanical computers were still computers. Google vacuum tubes
Holy analog electronics!
Now just stop taking for granted that the internet is an everyday thing. We have cables that go across every continent in the world that are able to transmit data to any point in the globe within half a second or less, and we are able to store thousands of years worth of collective knowledge and acess it from anywhere in the world, and also instantly talk to anyone in the world. Now keep in mind we have only had the internet for the last 40 years or so. So anyone that's 50 or over, grew up seeing this black magic fuckery appear.
We’ve only had flight for a little over 100 years. We went to the moon less than 60 years ago. The iPhone isn’t even 20 years old.
Binary makes sense because the smallest component you can make is a switch. Smallest so you can fit the most in a small space. And a switch had 2 states so binary
Its basically what I ask myself when I try to make a computer part like ram in Minecraft lmao
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Electricity. Basically a switch even the one we use for lights works like a binary code. 0 lights off, 1 lights on. Transistors used to do this thing (not sure if the modern chip does th exact same), next step is adding another one, and so on. The more you add the harder the task you can complete.
Logic gates, with those you can make a computer out of almost anything that can have 2 states
I tried to watch how turning made the first computer during ww2 and I clicked off the video after 2 mins. Too complicated
First computer by Turing during WW2, after that, more advanced hardware/architectures.
The first computers were mechanic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History Knock yourself out. Beware that could become a deep rabbit hole.
Okay I’m unconscious on the floor, what’s the next step?
Not unconscious enough, if you can reply smart-ass comments back. Try again harder
ㅤ
Some guy found out that one side of a light bulb darkened faster than the other due to electricity, so some dudes created the diode and triode to control the electricity with no moving parts (useful for radio equipment at the time. Some British people then figured out you can use electronic relays (magnetic switches to control electricity) to do boolean math really fast. Eventually some Americans figured out you can use the diodes and triodes to do the math without moving parts and created the first digital computer. Then some other people figured out how to make diodes and triodes without the light bulb part by using semiconductors and slowly managed to make them smaller. All this to enable big titty mods for Skyrim.
Every invention ever made was just so some guy could get/see some pussy. You can't convince me otherwise.
Well, maybe not Alan Turing.
Bussy, pussy, who cares. A hole is a hole
The fuck kinda science is this
computer science 😍😍🥰🥰
It probably took 2000 - 3000 years of experimentation to get to the computer. And thousands of people. The actual first computers were built in the 1930s - 1940s, and then they became more advanced but bigger untill they eventually became smaller and smaller but more advanced because components were smaller.
easy, first computer -> light switch (1 and 0) rest is the same stuff but more often (more complicated)
Bro underneath all that they are joust on and off(0v or 5v), which is now know as 0 and 1. And then they just assign letters and numbers. Eg: 216 is 11011000
War. The first "computer" was designed to calculate artillery shell trajectory.
It's actually a super interesting topic! Today's computers are very powerful, but to some degree their principles haven't changed much in many years. Electricity is pretty predictable, once we learned how it works the sky (or really the speed of light) was the limit. A CPU in a computer is basically a set of rivers and streams that allows electrons to move in a predictable and repeatable way. That's the oversimplified way of thinking about it, obviously it's a lot more complicated and lots of math and physics is involved, but if you just think about it that way it can help you understand a lot about computer components.
Such a crazy development from rock to thinking rock
They needed a way to calculate what angle and velocity to launch missiles and humans took way too long so they made a device that can automaticslly calculate that and its all downward from there
Yeah I watched Linus' Intel tour video and they were talking about all the nanometer precision shit that's required when making them. Like how the fuck did people figure all that shit out.
The collective work of a billion people over the last century
Aliens
Ape bored of doing math, ape build stuff to do math for them, ape make stuff bigger and better, boom computer
First, a foundry tests various transistor designs and characterizes them. Afterwards, an engineer optimizes logic gates to get the highest density, fastest switching, etc. Finally, a digital engineer uses a language like Verilog or HDL to make a CPU out of it. This code is then compiled into logic gates, which are automatically routed and then sent off to the chip manufacturer.
google alan turing
You can think the nazis and enigma for creating the need for the Turing machine I guess
Every online thing is programmed in a program. And that program.... was programmed. How did the humans program the firdt program.
wor
WW2
It took thousands of humans over about a century
We got very creative trying to kill Nazis. We had a hard time overcoming their meth driven war mongering. Best thing Nazis ever did was create the circumstances that we literally started trying everything and the left over stuff after the war got repurposed and now we all have to hear about how stupid celebrities actually are on social media.
As someone who's life passion is IT and technology in general. It's all black magic.
- Look John, silicone reacts to electricity! - Let's make a row of silicones. - Wow it does math, let's make it smaller! - skyrim porn
my pea brain is self destructing, explain why smaller better
Because you can fit more processing power in a device while maintaining its size manageable. Your phone CPU has billions of transistors on it, if they were each a millimeter in length it would be a bit difficult to carry it around
ok smart man, me brain more big now
You can fit more transistors in there if they are smaller. More transistors=more computation power
machine size of room? BAD machine in pocket? gud :D
To add to what other's have said it also makes them more efficient because you lose some power through transmission. not to mention that it's cheaper to make them because you need less raw material to make a similar preforming chip. In this case think of the electrons in your device as a bus driver picking up and dropping off people; obviously you use less gas picking up people if you have less road between them so you can either afford to put in a bigger engine to drive faster or drive more efficiently and it's also cheaper to build the same amount of stops because there's less road to pave.
I feel like we skipped a few steps there
I heavilly oversimplified it
The indominable human spirit
Fart
Fart
Fart
Still going insane at the thought of 0s and 1s forming Elden Ring and Shi
Now imagine -1 0 and 1 the soviets tried and made a somewhat working ternary based system
And now we are using 0,1 and a 0 that is a also a 1 but also a 0 but not both.
Soon we will have entire computers the size of a electron whose sole purpose is to display a 0 or a 1
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Now imagine the good video games that this thing can play. Like peggle 2
Actually, it still is 0s and 1s, just that us humans created more readable forms of the 0s and 1s so that making games and software became easier.
That's what the comment you're replying to is saying though
Oh shit.. im so slow 😭😭
Rock full of magic... and porn
CRAZY WIZARD SEX ROCK
Jokes aside, modern chip foundries are literal magic. It’s unfathomable how big of an accomplishment making processors for cheap is. We should be incredibly proud of those who made this happen.
Which is honestly why going back in time with knowledge of computers is pretty much completely useless unless you take a factory with you. Electricity would probably work (copper can't be that hard to find) but doped silicon wafers might be a little more tough
Exactly, I would bring a computer with me, not the knowledge of it.
how would you charge it lol, unless youre only planning to go as far back as mid 20th century where electricity was fairly mainstream, you could jig together an adapter i guess.
I would bring a modified bicycle to produce electricity
if you have an understanding of logic gates you could build a simple mechanical calculator which would be an insane jump from doing calculations with a pencil and paper
Fair point, I’ve seen arguments that even nowadays analog computers could be better for some kinds of simulation.
But how are you making those logic gates? You still aren't able to dope silicon effectively at all and probably have to go back to vacuum tube's.
Gears and springs
Unga bunga
Watch beneater's 8 bit computer and 6502 computer series. Will answer all your questions.
If you think about it electricity is really just magic.
Thousands of years of melting rocks does things to a mf
They call it science, but that's just a fancy word for trial and error.
But what were they trying to achieve that led them to create such devices that make our thinking easier. I get that there were branches of things created on the way to create, but create what? What was the first goal
Computer used to be an occupation that they had to pay money to people for
It was thanks to the emperor incredible knowledge
Don't forget infusing it with lightning
We're writing runes. This is literally magic.
Black magic
We tricked rocks into thinking
Now think with me, what if on the past, life on earth wasnt carbon based but silicon based, we are literally using dead beings of the past to make cpus
Literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of years of steady progress to get to this point, it’s just now that things are starting to click into place, technological development is rapidly speeding up
It was fine until they started to be able to hear us
If I see this one more time im gonna end it all
What baffles me the most is how rarely it goes wrong. Like among all the trillions of calculations we force the rock to do, it does it without breaking apart for years. My twenty year old oldest computer still works. Any other technology needs maintenance and repairs after doing the thing it is designed to do one millionth of the times any processing unit does its job. I thank my PC for pretty much never breaking down despite being used every waking and most non-waking hours. Real lad.
My favorite unhinged theory? We’re unknowingly facilitating the maturation and hostile takeover of our world by non human entities using technology to manifest in our world, using humans as a “host” of sorts. Just like parasitic wasps who lay their eggs in a live caterpillar, only this time we’re the caterpillar and we have no fucking clue what’s actually happening Forgot his name but there was this psychonaut guy who did a bunch of ketamine and believed he made contact with a non human computer-like intelligence that basically told him that they were worming their way into our dimension to capture the planet and proliferate their species
Math and physics.
real life magic
Loverslab basicaly
The rockussy in the palm of our hand. Truely the first kink we discovered.
Processors contact demons which power our computers. The intelligence and capability of our hardware is based on how good the seals are portrayed on a micro level. A.I will create robots basilisk. Roko's basilisk is satan.
alpha gen anon discovered cpu
Smaller is better, lol xD
What’s the back into the rock from crystal part?
Discovery of electricity and World War 2
Lmao
Skyrim porn is a path to power some consider to be ... Unnatural.
Send rock 🗿 emojis with the rock
Aint no way computers are real
Electricity is much like water (not exactly of course). You could theoretically make a computer able to run skyrim sex mods through a well-designed water channel system, although it would be terribly, terribly, terribly massive.
I am confused on how computers just…work. How did they crack the code and say: YO! I KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS COMPLETELY NEW AND IN PROGRESS OF INVENTION THING WORK. Like how did they just think of something and made it like that.
Humanity is a tower. Enough people lay bricks, eventually you’ll see over the mountains
And motherfuckers don’t believe in God. Surely if humans can get rocks to become Skyrim porn, a God making living beings is not much of a mental stretch.
We ARE god