tmsr - Search: trinary

ben_vulpes: i only started thinking about compute because of bitcoin, and shortly after i started thinking about it in earnest (like maybe a month, six weeks something like that) you showed up in #b-a and /even at that point/ were talking about eg trinary circuits and computing fabric

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i was hoping for eg trinary circuits, dataflow fabric, but quickly disappoint.

asciilifeform: but forget, for this thread, trinary adders, you can just as readily have same arithmetron with binary regs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no pointer contemplated, just knuth's trinary arithmetic scheme, familiar from kindergarten.

asciilifeform: point was not 'it is rubbish', but that you cannot build, e.g., trinary comp, with it.

ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-09-2014#846710 << root of trinary use in your vm, ascii_field? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: if i put two registers together, have i now made a trinary register ?

ascii_field realized that one could, in principle, microfabricate logical circuits made of magnetic amplifiers (as seen in well-known 'сетунь' trinary computer)

BingoBoingo: Ah, trinary wasn't available at shop for trading?

asciilifeform: 'hired to solve problem' means that you are theoretically free to do it with a computer made of trained squirrels pushing trinary equations, so long as this fits the constraints set by the client.

asciilifeform would like a copy of mircea_popescu's trinary sovcoin plz. because this is just Sad.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu> but i never put any serious effort into electrical engineering! << said the chap with his own bitcoind running on soviet trinary comp

asciilifeform: yes but why 'leveldb.' say i'd like to use a db which runs on a martian trinary computer and writes bits to miniature dead babies turned in one of two directions

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu could have ended up writing monte carlo sims for implosion tampers on gigantic trinary computer. in refal.

asciilifeform: starts out with innocent symptoms like this, end up like yours truly, ranting at hapless strangers about trinary logic made of muller's gates.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is still not how i read that one. it was more of a 'what is this martian trinary computer, where can i plug it in? with what sauce can i eat it'. and iirc that was your own initial reaction in '11.

asciilifeform: and an advance fuckyou to anyone who might bitch, 'you whine about modeline vs. mode-line but you even want to switch to trinary computer and no existing soft.'

asciilifeform: incidentally, goes great with trinary logic (how? exercise for alert reader.)

asciilifeform: 'check out our other installments, such as Balanced Trinary Computing and Electrically Induced REM Sleep.'

asciilifeform: decimation: start with the soviet mistake (circa mid-70s) of scrapping their own (interesting! e.g. trinary!) comp. research and deciding to copy western archs - e.g. pdp

asciilifeform: pankkake: are you a member of any that have 1970s soviet trinary mainframe manuals, rather than peculiar and rare fetish porn?

asciilifeform: mod6: see, i tell people, 'trinary logic, clockless Muller gates, direct execution of high-level language.'

asciilifeform: you could spend a lifetime studying fun soviet recipes (trinary computer; or my personal favourite, the 'subterrine' - nuclear reactor melts a tunnel in front of you in real time...)