Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate [pdf] (2011)

[todsacerdoti]

http://wpmedia.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/13/2018/02/20-2-2.pdf

[WJW]

Title looks like word soup, but it's actually very cool. You can implement logical AND/OR/etc gates with crabs, leading to the possibility of an entire crab-based CPU. Minecrafters/dwarf fortressers, get on it!

[quadrature → WJW]

Sounds like something straight out of three body problem.

[tmearnest → WJW]

I legitimately thought it was about diceware until I clicked the link.

[anonymousiam]

Published in the second quarter issue of Complex Systems (2011). In case it slips past you, the second quarter begins on April 1st.

[enjeyw]

Given the setup relies on intimidation plates to frighten the crabs into action, we can only assume the future of computers will be "Regularly Intimidated Soldier Crabs".

[etaioinshrdlu]

I like to imagine a giant robotic crab with a crab processing unit.

[rozab]

Is there a video of this in action?

[alhirzel]

Title sounded like a password https://xkcd.com/936/

[austinprete → alhirzel]

Heh I assumed this would be about passwords too. Even knowing what it’s about now my brain still insists on parsing it as 5 disparate words.

[klyrs]

Sweet. Now do a Toffoli gate