Anonymous (68.62.3.x) 29 Jul 2008 06:40
So, what do you think?
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Anonymous (68.62.3.x) 29 Jul 2008 06:40
So… a hueg black box that kills people and infinitly processes things? Sounds like an Xbox…
Downvoted partially for being boring and mostly because figuring out a working knowledge of a computer that uses an unknown programming language from the ground up with no interface after discovering its input method by mistake is fucking impossible.
Assuming that they knew it was a computer, but didn't know which aperture was which, and there's some obvious way of terminating an input (like removing the wire), they could probably brute force it until you got some response, then use a genetic algorithm.
"Asymptotically?" I wonder if that's supposed to be "exponentially".
Actually, it has to be "asymptotically," otherwise it'll never approach infinity. Basically what he's saying is that the calculation speed can be calculated (roughly) by some equation in the form $S=\frac{1}{8-x}$ where S is the speed of the calcuation and x is the number of minutes it's been working on it. That means that instead of a continuously increasing curve like an exponential function, you get something that starts slow, but increases much, much faster than an exponential when it gets close to eight minutes, finally becoming undefined at eight minutes exactly, but not before achieving an infinite processing speed in the millisecond before that.
Of course, this could be reading more into this than there is, but I'm pretty sure that's the whole point. This thing is a mathematical concept made real, and screwing with it will, in fact, cause huge explosions. I suppose we should just be grateful it's not one of the mathematical concepts that allow time travel.
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It actually seems to be more or less the same. Cleaned up wording, and cosmetically tweaked description. It's certainly an improvement, but not a fundamental change. Then again, there's nothing wrong with that.
Hmm…
Nope, still a cube made from an unknown material that does stuff.
To be honest, I didn't really like incident at the end. I understood the reason for not allowing non-terminating programs input just fine without it, and it really raises the question "how the hell did we eventually turn it off?"
Agreed. That bit bugs me. I am assuming that the push button does also halt a computation such that, at great loss of D-Personnel, the button was pushed. Either that or it finished the non-halting program (yes, impossible, but isn't that the point of most SCPs?), but the result was lost due to massive devastation.
No vote from me for now.
And yet it still can't run Crysis on maximum settings.
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