(May 25, 2018 at 4:54 pm)Khemikal Wrote: -and now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming
No fuck that I want to get back to what you said earlier ...
(May 25, 2018 at 4:54 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I;ve got to get this out before I totally lose my moment......but...I want to build an 8 bit carry look ahead out of terra-cotta tinted pvc and check valves as part of a water feature here in my yard.
I have this long 45 degree hill to work with..and I don;t know why but I think it would be absolutely beautiful to build a simple processor out of all the flow lines, and use it instead of solenoids to manage the water for koi.
If i ever get off my lazy ass and do it, none of you will ever be able to stop me from posting 30 pictures of the thing a fuckin day.
See I want to do something similar with neural networks. I figured out that I could implement my local learning ANN as a garden water feature. Each neuron could be impemented by a water cistern that fills to the point where a gate flips over like the kind of garden features you get in Japanese gardens) with the water flowing through pipes of different widths to other layer of neurons. It would be a self organising system where water pressure corresponded to voltage. The attraction would be that being a physical system something like that could last for an indefinite period of time.
My problem has always been knowing what to use it for. Something like selecting the stream of water which caused the less disturbance. Would you want to minimise / maximise the flow of water for Koi?
So fucking cool we both have similar ideas.
Having now sold our house with a 45 degree overgrown hill for a garden in Germany having only ever lived there for 3 months, I am playing at creating a neural network with Geomags on my living room coffee table as a physical representation of an energy landscape.
