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BooLoo
Oct 18, 2010

SLAM TIME
ian, you're making me worried

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Ian McLean posted:

oooh I'm so sorry. Your loop did not do what you wanted it to do? We loop everything. Your loops will keep going basting everything into our severeness with our micro fusion diamond core x256 strength.

A long time ago they stopped thinking in what the strongest material became of something. Diamond became the clysmic for the foundation of density.

you seem to be stepping into a sacred realm

where only the most enlightened posters venture

you will be banned many times, and probated seven times seven

in the end though, you will be proven right

richard's wallet bacons

Ian McLean
Sep 9, 2012

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I feel like supporting infinite loops is not a trivial concept.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i guess you weren't web scale after all :(

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i think you could do well to move to gpgpu. buy old cards off broke rear end bitcoiners
thousands of loops per card, Ian! Thousands! Running in the card.
Then you can have a box of cards off the pcix bus, a sea of intense loops running in the cards, a tiny babbling brook of cooked and uncooked data over the bus

pseudopresence
Mar 3, 2005

I want to get online...
I need a computer!
Okay realtalk for a sec here, Ian, are you talking about allowing users to upload code that will get run in the cloud, and preventing that code from eating up all your resources? How you solve this depends on how you make money. Amazon virtualizes and just charges you for cpu time so they don't care. Wolfram Alpha times out requests after some short amount of processing time.

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

wait i thought ian was working for wolfram couldn't he get like insider access to run as many infinite loops as he wanted

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

BooLoo posted:

ian, you're making me worried

you guys should pobably feel bad about toying with a legit mentally ill person

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Al! posted:

you guys should pobably feel bad about toying with a legit mentally ill person

he keeps coming back

and a LOT of people have told him he may need to seek help

no judgement, just that he almost certainly should

and then come back and say 'sup

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

everyone supports infinite loops

just look at any game

Rufus Ping
Dec 27, 2006





I'm a Friend of Rodney Nano
loop

back and forth

forever

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
))<>((

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

syscall girl posted:

he keeps coming back

and a LOT of people have told him he may need to seek help

no judgement, just that he almost certainly should

and then come back and say 'sup

whatever i just don't find taunting the obviously mentally ill as fun as i used to

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Al! posted:

whatever i just don't find taunting the obviously mentally ill as fun as i used to

yeah :shrug:

and i worry about mr super awesome too

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...
i think you can get an infinite loop down to a single active element?

consider an OISC, like subtract and branch if not zero, pointing at a single bit of memory

set a few points on rails as parts of the instruction, and have the one active element be the part of the information that's flipping

im handwaving a little but im pretty sure you can define 'memory' in such a way that the machine is just flipping between two adversely set bits in such a way that it won't see/need rest of the 'tape'

just one oscillator

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

even apple has stopped at 1 infinite loop. don't play too close to the sun ian

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

syscall girl posted:

he keeps coming back

and a LOT of people have told him he may need to seek help

no judgement, just that he almost certainly should

and then come back and say 'sup

surprise, a bunch of mentally ill people can't or won't acknowledge their mental illness

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

theflyingexecutive posted:

surprise, a bunch of mentally ill people can't or won't acknowledge their mental illness
Freddie-Kreuger Effect

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

ian have you considered learning you some erlang? it has achieved 6 sigmas of u[time

Rufus Ping
Dec 27, 2006





I'm a Friend of Rodney Nano

power botton posted:

even apple has stopped at 1 infinite loop. don't play too close to the sun ian

Ericadia
Oct 31, 2007

Not A Unicorn
sometimes i think ian is kirk, but then sometimes i think he isn't, and i get real worried :ohdear: please seek help ian

Ian McLean
Sep 9, 2012

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Thanks for the input JawnV6 and power button!

Anyone ever see this? http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/madness_redefined

coffeetable
Feb 5, 2006

TELL ME AGAIN HOW GREAT BRITAIN WOULD BE IF IT WAS RULED BY THE MERCILESS JACKBOOT OF PRINCE CHARLES

YES I DO TALK TO PLANTS ACTUALLY

Ian McLean posted:

Thanks for the input JawnV6 and power button!

Anyone ever see this? http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/madness_redefined

you are not a tortured genius

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Sep 9, 2012

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coffeetable posted:

you are not a tortured genius

So then that means I am perfectly normal :)


ayn rand hand job posted:

this summer there is no moore law, only ians law

Yes. Like this facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedStatesRevolt

btw I have this theory Moore's law is something completely fabricated because of collusion with elite semiconductor companies who develop technology way in advanced, but slowly release it a little at a time to maintain consistent profits. If they released the best stuff right away, it would not be as profitable as slowly coming out with better stuff.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

if you genuinely believe that then you're a loving idiot

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

its like the aids cure pfizer has

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
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Ian McLean posted:

btw I have this theory Moore's law is something completely fabricated because of collusion with elite semiconductor companies who develop technology way in advanced, but slowly release it a little at a time to maintain consistent profits. If they released the best stuff right away, it would not be as profitable as slowly coming out with better stuff.
is that why statpedia sucks

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

power botton posted:

its like the aids cure pfizer has

well what do you expect from International Jewery

Thesoro
Dec 6, 2005

YOU CANNOT LEARN
TO WHISTLE
that one scene from MIB was real???

Ericadia
Oct 31, 2007

Not A Unicorn

anthonypants posted:

is that why statpedia sucks

he's saving the good stuff to drive profits up. it makes perfect sense

Ian McLean
Sep 9, 2012

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Statpedia is awesome! Just wait, one day it will be filled with tons of interesting content and we will be able to relate and compare all this information together.

Ian McLean
Sep 9, 2012

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http://statpedia.com/index.php/search/?title=Supercomputer+Share+by+Countries&source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500&id=MzY3&type=table

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Ian McLean posted:

Statpedia is awesome! Just wait, one day it will be filled with tons of interesting content and we will be able to relate and compare all this information together.
yeah but what are you waiting for. what is the moore's law analogue preventing that "one day" from being a year and a half ago

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

might i suggest a tutorial on how to use your website?

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA
May 29, 2008

anthonypants posted:

yeah but what are you waiting for. what is the moore's law analogue preventing that "one day" from being a year and a half ago

not enough infinite loops available at this time

Ian McLean
Sep 9, 2012

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seriously though... even if I do push marketing and tutorial efforts on this thing at the current moment, that AWS bill will kill me. It is a good concept, but until I get some real support, this thing can't go anywhere.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

ian take your meds

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Sweevo posted:

ian take your meds

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Sweevo posted:

ian take your meds

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penus de milo
Mar 9, 2002

CHAR CHAR

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

ian you could commission a chip fab shop to design and produce ASICs for you that very efficiently run loops

did someone say chip shop

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