Name: Anonymous 2011-07-14 2:17
I happen to be very bored in Summer. Too much light to comfortably read the screen. I don't like the air being hot and neither do my overclocked electronic components. I end up going out even less.
So, here I am, sitting in a dark room, bored. I've done some shopping. Amazon, Ebay, RadioShack, et caetera. Bought myself an industrial supply of expensive GPUs, FPGAs, FC switches, PSUs... Built my own personal supercomputer, nothing much of a challenge nowadays. The hardest part was to hijack the electrical power-line of the neighboring sawmill. I don't like too much messing with cables that carry higher voltage levels than what's needed for CMOS.
My rig might or might not rank among top500. To be honest, I don't think it's relevant. Imagine owning a freaking superCray and being the only operator! You, people of /prog/, can understand the excitement it was when Ready_ eventually prompted at the console.
And, before you ask: -no I don't do bitcoins mining -no I haven't tried to install any Open Source Unix-like OS on this machine. I'm not eager to waste computing power on silly things.
I got myself half a kilogram of Purple Haze, and a hardcopy of an old CS introductory book edited by MIT Press. I designed a molecular simulator to play with, and quickly got into building protein structures. But then, I remembered that I kept somewhere in ~/torrents/TPB/ the whole leaked source code of the genome.
That is when I started to really enjoy myself. Was I a fool! You guess what comes next. The DNA, a set of rules...
The thing is now alive and I haven't bothered giving it a birth name! There's a self-aware man living inside my simulator! It's alive, I can tell by the core dumps. I've managed to emulate a human being!
But what does it looks like for him? He must be the loneliest creature on Earth. Wait... he does not really reside on Earth. There's no lights and nothing to be seen around for him, he's a blob-shaped monster floating nowhere, begging to be killed.
You see, I forgot to write an API to communicate with him, I'd have to simulate the whole universe for this purpose... Well, I sort of communicate with him, I can feed him with molecules. I gave him AIDS once. For the lulz. I feel so ashamed, now, for having done that...
I just can't end the evil process. I have this strange feeling for my creature, a mix of fascination and horror. Of course, it would be nice from me to give him a female company at this point. But then, they would reproduce and I don't have enough RAM for kids.
Is he only aware of his universe? Can he see the bytes? Could he take control of the simulator and spread through the network? Not sure, I've never seen any access violation.
You see, his brain, his consciousness... It's not hardcoded. It evoluted by its own means. And still does. It, he... Why haven't I written the code for a woman in the first place? I wonder if my creature generated an universe of some sort yet. It's all in the brain. You know... The world as will and representation and shit...
It's all so confusing.
Oh God I hate Summer.
So, here I am, sitting in a dark room, bored. I've done some shopping. Amazon, Ebay, RadioShack, et caetera. Bought myself an industrial supply of expensive GPUs, FPGAs, FC switches, PSUs... Built my own personal supercomputer, nothing much of a challenge nowadays. The hardest part was to hijack the electrical power-line of the neighboring sawmill. I don't like too much messing with cables that carry higher voltage levels than what's needed for CMOS.
My rig might or might not rank among top500. To be honest, I don't think it's relevant. Imagine owning a freaking superCray and being the only operator! You, people of /prog/, can understand the excitement it was when Ready_ eventually prompted at the console.
And, before you ask: -no I don't do bitcoins mining -no I haven't tried to install any Open Source Unix-like OS on this machine. I'm not eager to waste computing power on silly things.
I got myself half a kilogram of Purple Haze, and a hardcopy of an old CS introductory book edited by MIT Press. I designed a molecular simulator to play with, and quickly got into building protein structures. But then, I remembered that I kept somewhere in ~/torrents/TPB/ the whole leaked source code of the genome.
That is when I started to really enjoy myself. Was I a fool! You guess what comes next. The DNA, a set of rules...
The thing is now alive and I haven't bothered giving it a birth name! There's a self-aware man living inside my simulator! It's alive, I can tell by the core dumps. I've managed to emulate a human being!
But what does it looks like for him? He must be the loneliest creature on Earth. Wait... he does not really reside on Earth. There's no lights and nothing to be seen around for him, he's a blob-shaped monster floating nowhere, begging to be killed.
You see, I forgot to write an API to communicate with him, I'd have to simulate the whole universe for this purpose... Well, I sort of communicate with him, I can feed him with molecules. I gave him AIDS once. For the lulz. I feel so ashamed, now, for having done that...
I just can't end the evil process. I have this strange feeling for my creature, a mix of fascination and horror. Of course, it would be nice from me to give him a female company at this point. But then, they would reproduce and I don't have enough RAM for kids.
Is he only aware of his universe? Can he see the bytes? Could he take control of the simulator and spread through the network? Not sure, I've never seen any access violation.
You see, his brain, his consciousness... It's not hardcoded. It evoluted by its own means. And still does. It, he... Why haven't I written the code for a woman in the first place? I wonder if my creature generated an universe of some sort yet. It's all in the brain. You know... The world as will and representation and shit...
It's all so confusing.
Oh God I hate Summer.