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Re: Are low tech computers viable?

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On Monday, July 10, 2017 at 12:18:39 PM UTC+10, chemguy wrote:
> It is well known that bees communicate essential information by performing a dance ritual within the hive. It may be possible to design a low tech computer based upon the dance of the bees.
> 
> The Dancing Computer;
> 
> A low tech computer may be designed to mimic the dancing bees. This procedure may also be simulated electronically.
> 
> Assume a very large chess board (dancing board) with black and white squares. The optimum array of squares must be confirmed.
> 
> A person is assigned to stand on each square. Again the optimum number of people must be confirmed. This implies that some squares may be initially “empty”. Each person holds a colored card, the card may also be labeled or numbered. The initial configuration of the “dancing board” represents data input.
> 
> A “caller” (not standing on the board) shouts out dance instructions accompanied by some music. The occupants of the board obey the “dance instructions” from the caller similar to a square dance. The dance instructions may also include a specific exchange of cards between some dancers. The dance instructions are an algorithm (or operation) to be performed on the original data input.
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> After the dance is complete each occupant may have a new position on the board and may be holding a different card than originally held. The final configuration of the “dancing board” represents data output. 
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> The data output may represent a solution to some problem (a low tech “computer” solution). 
> 
> I encourage others to design such a computer.

It is not necessary to design such a computer. The basic idea is sound and
useful for simulations. In fact, I wrote a simulation program to optimise
the performance of Telstra call centre networks using that idea back in 1995.
The idea was to change one variable out of thousands, and see the output, and
then keep on repeating this process till the best set of variables is 
obtained. To begin with I used a discrete event simulation, based on 
randomness. Then later I made it simpler using analytic functions, so simple
that it could be presented in Excel.

Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee

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