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WCDT strips 3956-3960 (11th to 15th March 2019)
Thrudd:
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--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 14 Mar 2019, 00:38 ---I always wondered what cause the coolant vent in the first place. I know, it's a last resort cooling mechanism, but how does the whole system get that hot anyway? Intentional by design overclocking to process sensory inputs and their effects, all while staying conscious?
I'd understand blacking out of a second to preserve processing power and stop fresh input - but that may result in an input/blackout loop. Then why not disconnect the sensory input causing it? Maybe that's not available in every chassis, or it would result in a sensory brownout / pseudoblackout.
Unless JJ actually is going to answer that soon in the comics, I'll have to spin my own theories.
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Mandatory Law of Funny compliance. Kind of like OHSA posters in our universe.
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This. ^
On the psuedo-technical front of speculative engineering I would hazard to guess that things like the core housing the personality matrix and all that wibbly wobbly tiddly widdley mess of actively self rewriting code webs does not have anything like an adjustable clock regulator.
I think this would have something to do with real-time processing of analogue inputs ending up phase shifted and messing up the parameters if you did do that without the added compensation circuitry for each input.
Evaporation cooling for those rare times that the standard cooling system can not handle the load would be a very effective and efficient backup safety capability.
That it just so happens that a libido trigger would cause such an occurrence was most likely unforeseen in the design stage.
If any AI chassis [or core substrate more likely] would have the capability to overclock themselves it would be military systems that would require femto-seconds of screaming fast tactical processing to react to imminent threats between eons of standby mode and talking to the janitor about the latest episode of Game of Thrones.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Milayna on 14 Mar 2019, 10:10 ---It isn't the hours that make me wonder, it's what made them go from an "artisanal" looking typefont to handwritten scribbles. Or is handwritten scribbles what kids consider hipster 10 years later? (Is hipster still a thing?)
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In QC time, maybe a year passed since then, max two? As far as I can say for sure, from the beginning till now, it's been like three years, in story time, maybe four?
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 14 Mar 2019, 13:12 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 14 Mar 2019, 12:38 ---
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 14 Mar 2019, 00:38 ---I always wondered what cause the coolant vent in the first place. I know, it's a last resort cooling mechanism, but how does the whole system get that hot anyway? Intentional by design overclocking to process sensory inputs and their effects, all while staying conscious?
I'd understand blacking out of a second to preserve processing power and stop fresh input - but that may result in an input/blackout loop. Then why not disconnect the sensory input causing it? Maybe that's not available in every chassis, or it would result in a sensory brownout / pseudoblackout.
Unless JJ actually is going to answer that soon in the comics, I'll have to spin my own theories.
--- End quote ---
Mandatory Law of Funny compliance. Kind of like OHSA posters in our universe.
--- End quote ---
This. ^
On the psuedo-technical front of speculative engineering I would hazard to guess that things like the core housing the personality matrix and all that wibbly wobbly tiddly widdley mess of actively self rewriting code webs does not have anything like an adjustable clock regulator.
I think this would have something to do with real-time processing of analogue inputs ending up phase shifted and messing up the parameters if you did do that without the added compensation circuitry for each input.
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Software so dynamic you better keep the hardware as static as possible? Sounds reasonable to me. Will it hit its limits occasionally? Hopefully not, but you never know.
--- Quote ---Evaporation cooling for those rare times that the standard cooling system can not handle the load would be a very effective and efficient backup safety capability.
That it just so happens that a libido trigger would cause such an occurrence was most likely unforeseen in the design stage.
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give it a bit more power than it should ever need and keep the cooling system as quiet as possible? Still kinda reasonable. Emergency measures for the rare occasion.
--- Quote ---If any AI chassis [or core substrate more likely] would have the capability to overclock themselves it would be military systems that would require femto-seconds of screaming fast tactical processing to react to imminent threats between eons of standby mode and talking to the janitor about the latest episode of Game of Thrones.
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I'll flat out accept that.
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 14 Mar 2019, 12:38 ---Mandatory Law of Funny compliance. Kind of like OHSA posters in our universe.
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Plus: they're supposed to emulate certain human parameters, too. Human...-ish by design, and by accident.
Also, this is a webcomic, not the real world. We can make theories as much as we like, but there's a more powerful entity controlling what's going on, and I like to call him "Mister J".
Mr Intrepid:
Today's comic hasn't dropped yet..odd.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 14 Mar 2019, 22:32 ---Today's comic hasn't dropped yet..odd.
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Here's hoping everything is okay.
Lear:
But I enjoyed the idea of Roko trying to enter again, with exactly the same result.
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