Extremely compact programming system by Technomancer

Technomancer

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2nd Aug 2015

3rd Aug 2015

This is an intriguing consequence of Ogsterduck's 'CRAY life' save. If you know what to do with this, please make whatever use of it you can. A more detailed explanation can be found in the save itself.

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  Technomancer 15th Feb 2018
  That was always my intended approach, though I don't think I explained it very well, and I kind of lost focus and drifted off to make Things That Go Bang. But I'm back to this now and working on a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how (I think) it can be made useful.
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  Technomancer 15th Feb 2018
  I've been experimenting with it again a bit, what I'm thinking is that I can use it as a compact way of encoding a single specific sequence of outputs. Rather than trying to map the outcome of every possible initial state, I'm looking at just picking ONE state and matching the outputs to instructions that occur in that order.
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  sentinal-5 25th Dec 2017
  So i've come back to this save and it seems you could use this as a form of lossless EXTREME memory compression, however. in order to make it functional, you would need a supercomputer to map every single possible starting combination, and the sequences they produce. which would in turn use many billions of times the storage space this thing could fill per output sequence. so all in all, sadly. not that useful.
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  Technomancer 23rd Apr 2016
  It's something that has always interested me. But I don't have the time to focus on anything right now, between my job and my children. I know enough to know I want to know more, but not enough to really be useful.
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  Vondaniel 21st Apr 2016
  learning how to program is worthwhile, trust me.
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  Technomancer 21st Apr 2016
  The problem is that I don't have the knowledge to be able to do that, and those who do, won't. It's only worthwhile as a curiosity, I think, since there are apparently better, more stable and more compact ways of encoding more data in TPT. Frankly, I wouldn't know, but having looked at the past work of some of the people who commented here, it seems they know what they're talking about. I certainly haven't managed to do anything worthwhile with this in the past 6 months!
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  Vondaniel 20th Apr 2016
  This is used, it's called "procedural programming" where the rules are layed out in advance and the input will change the overall outcome of the executed script. In this compact form however, slight adjustments would require changing a large amount of the structure. This would be useful if mapped out.
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  ivel236 29th Oct 2015
  Anyone down to build some sort of crypto machine out of it?
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  Kike200 9th Aug 2015
  Its... strange. A device so tiny, but so complex, will bring tech revolution on TPT
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  Kike200 9th Aug 2015
  Technomancer: Lets call sandwichlizard! maybe he will know what to do!