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dariusk / NaNoGenMo-2014

National Novel Generation Month, 2014 edition.
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Core #123

Open timClicks opened 9 years ago

timClicks commented 9 years ago

I just discovered NaNoGenMo, so I don't know if I'll hit the deadline. Oh well, may as well try.

My concept is a reflective CPU core interacting with the instructions and data. As CPUs tend to spend most of their time waiting, why wouldn't they be thinking?

On the technical side, will try to decompile an executable, then somehow match the instructions & data up with. Patterns of instructions could provoke different 'emotions', which in turn would spark different responses ("Oh wow, some serious math here!"). I don't know much assembly code at all, so I have no idea if this is viable or not.

If I generate any output (somewhat unlikely), maybe I could include other parts of the computer. Maybe RAM. the GPU and peripherals also would like to chat.

ikarth commented 9 years ago

I like it.

MichaelPaulukonis commented 9 years ago

Narrative Science ahoy!

Alternatively, this is the future PK Dick warned us about -- with sentient, depressesed toasters trying to engage us in conversation from sheer mind-numbing boredom of it all.

timClicks commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately, I've missed the deadline but do have a few hundred lines of code written & am succcessfully writing "novels" of length n. Will push ASAP.