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WCDT: 2510-2514 (August 12-16, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
That's all interface stuff. The actual AI moves from device to device by whatever means, then sets up an interlink with the Global AI from the new host.
Pintsize was probably not "stored" on Marten's computer as much as it was his interface with the "world" while Marten cleaned out his torso. His "self" - the programming AI bits that make him Pintsize - were probably distributed back in the cloud temporarily, and Marten used his own PC to help him make the connection. Since computers (and AI's) have gotten more complex in the QCverse, I doubt May or Momo could do that with Marigold's setup. (May might be able to do it, but it might chew up the processing power on Marbear's gaming rig - and she wouldn't like that.)
Anyways, that's my headcanon, and you should respect it. :P ;)
Is it cold in here?:
Registry files
DLL files
An AnthroPC as a thin client talking to the cloud? That makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
FuryoftheStars:
--- Quote from: jmucchiello on 16 Aug 2013, 12:47 ---You are assuming the computers in QC are von neumann machines running on bit-based RAM constructed similarly to the way they are in our universe. Our computers could not do AI like the QC universe computers can. So I think they must have a different architecture, perhaps they are quantum computers. In a quantum computer, a move operation causes actual teleportation without the copy and delete logic normally seen in a non-quantum computer. Frankly, a quantum computer achieving sentience makes infinitely more sense than a computer using today's chip technology becoming sentient.
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Yeah, and that's because they continue to use standard computer terms, talking about dual booting Windows and OSX, registry and dll files, etc. But you are right, today's technology wouldn't be able to handle that. But then again, AIs of that nature do not exist today, either. Either way, it is a comic and I doubt Jeph took the time to research if it was possible when he first created it.
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Aug 2013, 13:57 ---That's all interface stuff. The actual AI moves from device to device by whatever means, then sets up an interlink with the Global AI from the new host.
Pintsize was probably not "stored" on Marten's computer as much as it was his interface with the "world" while Marten cleaned out his torso. His "self" - the programming AI bits that make him Pintsize - were probably distributed back in the cloud temporarily, and Marten used his own PC to help him make the connection. Since computers (and AI's) have gotten more complex in the QCverse, I doubt May or Momo could do that with Marigold's setup. (May might be able to do it, but it might chew up the processing power on Marbear's gaming rig - and she wouldn't like that.)
Anyways, that's my headcanon, and you should respect it. :P ;)
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Aug 2013, 14:59 ---An AnthroPC as a thin client talking to the cloud? That makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
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Hmm, while this would be a possibility, I see a couple issues with it. If they ever lost signal (no wi-fi/cell towers/etc), the chassis would, for all intents and purposes, drop "dead". The other issue I see, is that if the chassis really were thin clients, they wouldn't need the data cables to hook between themselves and other units to transfer or even backup.
--- Quote from: Storel on 16 Aug 2013, 00:55 ---chassises (what IS the plural of chassis, anyway?)
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Oh, and sorry, forgot to comment on this. Chassis is both the singular and plural.
jwhouk:
I'm thinking it's a compatibility issue. Momo's current chassis, compared to Pintsize when we first met him, are two drastically different APC's. I suspect that the reason why Pintsize doesn't look at getting a new chassis is twofold - one, he's got a pretty decent and reliable chassis right now, and two, he might not be able to upgrade due to interface issues.
FuryoftheStars:
Well, actually, that's (supposed to be) the beauty behind thin clients. The server where everything runs (in the case of this theory with the APC chassis being the thin clients and the AI runs on the cloud, the cloud would be the server) is really the only part that needs to deal with compatibility stuff. The thin client is merely your interface to it... it does practically nothing for actual processing. My work uses thin clients. We've got various aged ones. For the longest time, we were using models that only had 64 Mb of RAM (!). We've upgraded a few since then with models that have 1 Gb... we see no discernible performance increase. It wasn't until we upgraded the servers themselves that we saw performance changes (we went from a cluster for 4 physical down to 2... virtualized). I'm pretty sure thin clients don't even have HDs. They just have very simple OS's that, for all intents and purposes, is just like a BIOS.
The only part I can see the compatibility coming in is in the software that does the communication back and forth... but I believe this is generally created so that it is very backwards compatible. I should probably leave that though for someone who is more knowledgeable on it than I.
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