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I created a calculator only using the scripting commands in the video game Counter-Strike, bind (for input) echo (for output) and alias (for the logic). Bind is to connect keys to a command or string of specified commands, echo is to output text to the console, and alias is a command that allows you to create a new command out of a string of specified commands. Basically, I can do math without using math. This is pure connectionism, where there are no values, no logic operators and no measurements in the logic. It is purely making, breaking and using connections and nothing else.
The first few paragraphs from my paper that I am working on:
How To Compute Without Variables, Logic Operators or Measurements
Work in progress
I have come up with what I believe is a new type of logic, it is mechanical in nature, but because I could maybe see it done on the quantum level it could be far more complex than any mechanical machine has ever been, in ways not seen in physical mechanical devices.
This logic is pure connectionism, only using connections and nothing else. I look at it as a geometry of logic. My system performs the logic only using one command without numeric variables, without logic operators, and without measurements. This is neither digital nor analog logic.
This is not theory, I have built a working model using this logic that demonstrates if-then, do-while, a randomizer, a relational database and other logic, including a rudimentary calculator that adds/subtracts/multiplies/divides. In the working model I only use one command for hooking in the input, a few commands for output, but all the logic in between is one command that does nothing but link commands together.
The logic demonstrated in this model uses the command “alias”, which is used in a FPS video game called Counter-Strike, which is a modification for a video game made by Valve called Half-Life, which is based on id Software's QuakeWorld engine. This command is used to link various commands together creating a new command that executes a command string, to provide a way for customizing the interface of the game. This logic requires input and output provided in the game - which, no doubt, uses Boolean logic to perform, but the logic itself is contained to using the one command “alias” and does not use Boolean logic.
A readable-online version of the paper (no download, unless you want a Word copy) https://app.box.com/s/4plplfbrhwr9qflosp8tir00r0pf1467
You can also find the paper here, but you have to download it to read it: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer
I suggest you start with the simple version of the calculator that does just add and subtract: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer/blob/master/calculator_simple.cfg
And the complex calculator has much better inline commenting: https://github.com/johnvlilley/Stateless-Computer/blob/master/calculator_complex.cfg
I am interested in taking some of the logic, perhaps the most complicated part - the grenade throwing script, and visually re-creating it in Minecraft. This part of the logic performs the permutations of a math question I came up with and was answered by using the ancient Chinese Pascal's Triangle in a new way. It is similar to the question of how many combinations of 4 hats on 4 pegs you can have, and I just had to count the pegs as part of the permutation where they did not.
Here is the question:
"You have a combination padlock with four dials on it. Each dial has the numbers 0 through 4 on them. The lock can have as many 0s as dials, and is set to 0000 by default. The lock does not allow you to use any number between 1 and 4 two or more times in the combination. The following combinations are valid: 0123 1234 0103 0010 4031. The following combinations are invalid: 0113 4014 0202 4444. How many possible combinations are there?"
The solution to this word problem is here, notice that it is a new use for Pascal’s Triangle, because it values nothing as something:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aicrr4ngCQthePBgy063rmrsy6IX?qid=20060710103458AAVr9ih
More formulas can be found here:
http://mathhelpforum.com/discrete-math/17147-combination-lock.html
I also desperately need help writing the paper, it is obvious I never have written one before. I can't offer any money, because I plan to put this in the public domain. I will certainly give credit where credit is due, though. Please contact me at [DELETED]@hotmail.com or the more reliable [DELETED]@gmail.com
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Two things:
1) Never post your email address in any forum, unless you really like spam! If anyone replies to you, you will receive an email to let you know.
2) This is probably the wrong place for this: Collaboration / Beta Testing Discussion Boards[^] is more appropriate.
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1.) He’s not going to get spam from this post
2.) Because it’s not an OTD? This forum used to be full of interesting posts like this - that would often spark pages and pages of interesting debate and replies.
Now it’s just same posts different day🙄
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Because it's a direct plea for someone to "collaborate" with him - or in his words "help write the article" - and the collaboration forum is a better place for that.
If this gave details of the idea instead of an outline and a request, that'd be different!
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Well, I feel I have no choice at this point about identifying myself, so I can get credit for this.
I don't want to spam this in multiple places on a single msg board, that will only piss of the moderator.
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And I was the one who moderated your multiple posts of this ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Huh? I only posted it here, what are you talking about?
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Welcome to the CP Lounge.
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Sorry, I am struggling to understand, what exactly do you think you have come up with? I haven't read the link, so maybe I am missing something, but it sounds like you are just talking about some sort of dictionary lookup?
For example:
if input = "1 + 1"
return "2"
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There is no logic operators like if and return and there are no numerics used in the logic
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Just because you don't write "if" and "return" it doesn't mean it isn't the same. And you don't think CS if using if statements to processing your commands?
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a little more then @musefan suggested, it's a table
input = 1, next input is +1: return 2
input = 1, next input is -1 return 0
input = 1, next input is +2 return 3
input = 1, next input is -2 return -1
...
input = 10, next input is is +10 return 20
....or at very most 1 step of a finite state machine.
one thing it's not is "logic"
... it's 100% mechanical the same way a mechanical calendar looks like it's "doing logic" to handle different length months.
a better design was the mechanical calculator: it had a very elegant way to handle carries
i.e. 7 (+ 6) lands on 3 + 1 carry to next significant digit, 7 X 3 -> 7 (+ 2 rotations of 7) resulting in landing on 1 with 2 carries happening (note how it discounts the multiplier by 1 to not need to 'reset' the starting point or use a 'register'). Division was really complicated (start by looking how the Z80 types did it) and cost a lot extra, decimals were just a fixed point in the wheel set.
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My logic is nothing like what you describe at the top. It actually performs the calculations similar to an abacus.
Yes I suppose this is like mechanical calculator, and what I think is mechanics taken to a new level.
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I skimmed the doc but I don't really get it. As far as the randomiser though, you might want to look at how randomisation works in Doom. Then realise that you can't really patent ideas that have been around since 1993 
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In my experience, if you think you invented the wheel, chances are someone else already did...
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Or more specifically: Google already own the patent 
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John Phantom wrote: I created a calculator only using the scripting commands in the video game Counter-Strike, bind (for input) echo (for output) and alias (for the logic). Bind is to connect keys to a command or string of specified commands, echo is to output text to the console, and alias is a command that allows you to create a new command out of a string of specified commands. Basically, I can do math without using math. This is pure connectionism, where there are no values, no logic operators and no measurements in the logic. It is purely making, breaking and using connections and nothing else.
And, on the seventh day, you rested ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The bucket helps hide their identity?
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
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Yes, and also they keep their list in there 
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It certainly gets me in to "good places": the VIP section of Google.com for example. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As a freelance I'd love to be able to start tracking my work hours from my cell phone, and once at home, being able to export all those worked hours to an excel spreadsheet.
It would be a plus being able to store all the data in my NAS...
And being able to check the database using something like Heidi sql.
For free...
Apart of doing my own solution (I truly don't have time for that), do you know of any tool that could do all this for me?
Thank you all!
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Joan M wrote: For free...
Free yells to me that it is not something important, otherwise you'd be spending dime 
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Not really, there are plenty of good products out there that are 100% free that can help people in important matters...
i.e. Linux powered servers in several companies...
I had a Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux working for years at my company handling all the server things... for free, and doing a better job than windows with less resources... not to say that I was able to set as many users and mail accounts as I wanted for free...
It is important, but if it can be for free it is even better...
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