#evolution of computers

[rowzeys]

The Evolution of Computers: A Journey Through Time

Computers have come a long way from their early mechanical beginnings to the devices we use today. The history of computers is a long journey marked by innovation, creativity, and technological breakthroughs that have shaped the modern world.

Below, I present a graphic timeline that captures the key milestones in the evolution of computers and to visually represent this journey that highlights the most significant developments.

From room-sized machines to pocket-sized smartphones, the evolution of computers is a proof to humans’ creativity and the continuous pursuit of progress. As we continue to innovate, the future of computing holds exciting possibilities that will further transform how we live and interact with technology.

[polararts]

Kurt. :')

[andmineisyellow]

✨Two very unserious people✨

[dougielombax]

Distant relatives.

Descendants, even.

Something akin to a kind of scion perhaps.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[x-mensirens]

Jean Grey/Madelyn Pryor and Nathan Summers/Cable in X-Men '97

[neathyingenue]

GUYS I ALMOST FORGOT GUESS WHO GOT THE 5 CARD LODGING AND PROGRESSED THE MARVELLOUS after nearly...4? 5? months at this point

AND finished Evolution on the same day???

[vioyume]

Ya think "Flower Journey" would get into controversy within the game world since the wasps are depicted as villains?

I spent too long playing this stupid flappy bird clone and I am forming stupid headcanons surrounding it.

You can probably make the same argument about the enemies in Mite Knight but they're more or less depicted as "mystical creatures".

Don't take this too seriously. I just thought it would be funny to have Flappy Bird be canceled.

[jeepers-its-the-void]

[coupleofdays]

According to the Tron Wiki, the character "Radia" is possibly named after the computer programmer Radia Perlman, whose contributions to network design (that are far too complicated for me as a layperson to understand) has earned her the nickname "Mother of the Internet".

She did once write a short poem about her work, a parody of Joyce Kilmer´s (in)famous poem "Trees":

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see

A graph more lovely than a tree.

A tree whose crucial property

Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree which must be sure to span

So packets can reach every LAN.

First the root must be selected.

By ID it is elected.

Least cost paths from root are traced.

In the tree these paths are placed.

A mesh is made by folks like me

Then bridges find a spanning tree.

[peggycatrerr]

i think it’s really really important that we keep reminding people that what we’re calling ai isn’t even close to intelligent and that its name is pure marketing. the silicon valley tech bros and hollywood executives call it ai because they either want it to seem all-powerful or they believe it is and use that to justify their use of it to exploit and replace people.

chat-gpt and things along those lines are not intelligent, they are predictive text generators that simply have more data to draw on than previous ones like, you know, your phone’s autocorrect. they are designed to pass the turing test by having human-passing speech patterns and syntax. they cannot come up with anything new, because they are machines programmed on data sets. they can’t even distinguish fact from fiction, because all they are actually capable of is figuring out how to construct a human-sounding response using applicable data to a question asked by a human. you know how people who use chat-gpt to cheat on essays will ask it for reference lists and get a list of texts that don’t exist? it’s because all chat-gpt is doing is figuring out what types of words typically appear in response to questions like that, and then stringing them together.

midjourney and things along those lines are not intelligent, they are image generators that have just been really heavily fine-tuned. you know how they used to do janky fingers and teeth and then they overcame that pretty quickly? that’s not because of growing intelligence, it’s because even more photographs got added to their data sets and were programmed in such a way that they were able to more accurately identify patterns in the average amount of fingers and teeth across all those photos. and it too isn’t capable of creation. it is placing pixels in spots to create an amalgamation of images tagged with metadata that matches the words in your request. you ask for a tree and it spits out something a little quirky? it’s not because it’s creating something, it’s because it gathered all of its data on trees and then averaged it out. you know that “the rest of the mona lisa” tweet and how it looks like shit? the fact that there is no “rest” of the mona lisa aside, it’s because the generator does not have the intelligence required to identify what’s what in the background of such a painting and extend it with any degree of accuracy, it looked at the colours and approximate shapes and went “oho i know what this is maybe” and spat out an ugly landscape that doesn’t actually make any kind of physical or compositional sense, because it isn’t intelligent.

and all those ai-generated voices? also not intelligent, literally just the same vocal synth we’ve been able to do since daisy bell but more advanced. you get a sample of a voice, break it down into the various vowel and consonant sounds, and then when you type in the text you want it to say, it plays those vowel and consonant sounds in the order displayed in that text. the only difference now is that the breaking it down process can be automated to some extent (still not intelligence, just data analysis) and the synthesising software can recognise grammar a bit more and add appropriate inflections to synthesised voices to create a more natural flow.

if you took the exact same technology that powers midjourney or chat-gpt and removed a chunk of its dataset, the stuff it produces would noticeably worsen because it only works with a very very large amount of data. these programs are not intelligent. they are programs that analyse and store data and then string it together upon request. and if you want evidence that the term ai is just being used for marketing, look at the sheer amount of software that’s added “ai tools” that are either just things that already existed within the software, using the same exact tech they always did but slightly refined (a lot of film editing software are renaming things like their chromakey tools to have “ai” in the name, for example) or are actually worse than the things they’re overhauling (like the grammar editor in office 365 compared to the classic office spellcheck).

but you wanna real nifty lil secret about the way “ai” is developing? it’s all neural nets and machine learning, and the thing about neural nets and machine learning is that in order to continue growing in power it needs new data. so yeah, currently, as more and more data gets added to them, they seem to be evolving really quickly. but at some point soon after we run out of data to add to them because people decided they were complete or because corporations replaced all new things with generated bullshit, they’re going to stop evolving and start getting really, really, REALLY repetitive. because machine learning isn’t intelligent or capable of being inspired to create new things independently. no, it’s actually self-reinforcing. it gets caught in loops. "ai” isn’t the future of art, it’s a data analysis machine that’ll start sounding even more like a broken record than it already does the moment its data sets stop having really large amounts of unique things added to it.

[cherubchoirs]

do you ever think about how effortlessly humans are capable of 'calculating' trajectory arcs in gravity? do you ever think about how instantly we do it without a single bit of math happening? do you ever think about how v1 would probably need human brainmeat to calculate the coins' arcs with such speed and precision?

interesting point....having a computer augmented with human brain matter would provide a hybrid that may account for the other's flaws. bc like humans love to sell ourselves short on how we don't have any "cool" adaptations, when the brain is literally a supercomputer in your skull!!!! it's highly sophisticated and while its shortcuts can be a nuisance to us, they are also brutally efficient and make a vast majority of what we do possible. this kind of intuitive math is pretty advanced, we just don't often consider it because all the math of it is a background process rather than conscious computations on arcs and velocity. i love v1 being powered by a quantum computer, and a supercomputer could absolutely make split second calcs on a myriad of things (especially with advanced ai learning that trains it more and more on what to expect) buuuut....v1 is. dinky. sci-fi tech and all that, but i think this is a much more interesting direction to go in. v1 can still have its quantum processors, but supplemented by brain material to make learning and shortcutting much more efficient/accurate. plus i mean. the human brain has many adaptations of the brain of a predator. it's all the brain that processes edges, making them much sharper in our vision than what is likely there in reality for hunting purposes (handy for picking out individual members of a herd). one of the theories as to why we immediately look toward movement in our peripheral vision is not fear of being hunted, but our own prey drive. just the fact that we developed this level of intelligence at all is indicative of us being predators (much more difficult to hunt than graze). so really...giving v1 that animalistic, millions of years of evolutionary work for free? slap that on a real supercomputer and you might just make the best killing machine yet.

[druke515]

Hello Yet Again Tumbl.

More Processing Power? Yes please!

I, and my buddy, have done even more to this machine. It is actually complex enough that my computer can't stably simulate it. That and new bugs but uhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. onto the yap sesh.

It's even fucking larger.

The up-scaling of all of the operations was the first part of this series of upgrades. Honestly not much to say about any of them. This was a very easy process. The multiplier was the most difficult, but that's just because It took longer than the others.

The Decimal Monster Returns, and With Even More.

This was the second step in the upgrades, this upgrade giving the computer the ability to represent up to 65565 in decimal, from 16 bits of Binary input. idk that's kinda it.

Taking Decimal And Making It Binary Again.

This was part of the preparations for the upgrade in the keypad to using the decimal system. This system of parts makes the keypad's input is then output as binary for the calculations it will put through.

Representing The Extended Width.

You can't just expand the width of the converter and NOT expand the circuit that outputs the visuals. That's about it.

Want A More Advanced Button Array? Get Some More ticks!

A simple upgrade for the Four tick, stepping up from 4 ticks to 6 ticks, another pretty simple thing.

Now That's I Call A Button Buffer!

This is the biggest part of the upgrades, also the most complex. all this does is process the button inputs. This done over 6 ticks. Each tick does 1 thing, such as the first two ticks storing your first set of ones and tens. The outputs on the far right are where the button inputs are fed out to processed. The six tick controls when things occur through a very much so scrapped together system, but it works. Also on the far right is the Decimal to Bin converter, it does what it says on the tin.

Conclusion I guess.

This Project as a whole means quite a bit to me, its the first one I haven't given up on practically immediately because I faced a small volume of issues. It's also just an impressive show of how much a cool pro fortnight gamer I am.

Wario posting now lmao

[hackeocafe]

The INSANE Evolution of Click Farms

how ironic. We had bots that "watch content", now we have bots to create content. The two ends of the circle has finally touched

[merelymaple]

Millions of years of evolution, thousands of years of linguistic evolution, the entire field of computer science, and the gay rights movement all came together in history to make some dumb shit like this.

[peliginspeaks]

is null like Aware that theyre only 2 and that thats not normal. i feel like they wouldnt realise xD

Null is not Aware. in general. However funny as that answer is this really did make me think so I'll try to answer it real style too shdhds

Null doesn't remember anything before the last 2 years or remember how they came about. Someone existed prior to that, now that person does not exist in living memory anymore, and Null is-not in her place. I don't think it has a concept of its age...? Since it only recently has developed a concept of being a thing that is alive, due to having been killed before. Null has very little internal dialogue that doesn't surround the feeling of hunger and emptiness and schemes to fill it, and no sense of identity to speak of outside of that, so the sense of being abnormal compared to most humans doesn't register with them much. However, by now they've probably realized that most people have a birthday and parents and a childhood, and from very early on they realized people like it when they appear to be like Most People.

So, if you asked Null about its background, you'd probably get a patched together mix of the information of others that it's heard and filed away. It wouldn't take an especially careful ear to realize that none of it adds up. References to moving from the Surface at age 18 clash with anecdotes of living in the Neath as a child, and if pressed for an age you'd swear you heard tell of a birthday party they hosted with a number that exceeded the one they just gave you. If you are positioned to be talking to Null, you are probably either too polite or too disinterested to pry. ...Or too confused. Most likely too confused.

(...or it will make you want to talk to them more to find out what's going on. Bad idea, overall.)