 Apologize for this video quality, all right. I didn't really mean to record it. That's pretty dark Let's see what happens Hey, folks. Thanks for coming 38 linux boxes equals one asynchronous cellular automata. That's my clickbait title for this update But it's true. We just saw it and you know, we're gonna have more we're gonna have over 100 Linux boxes equals one cellular automata. Not exactly sure when So I've got a bunch of stuff for today. I've got some more video about the building of what the hardware layout that we just saw That's going to go on a little bit. We'll take a look at that And then I want to give just a quick little Update on the research stuff on the software redesign for the event engine and then try to do a live outreach demo We'll see how it goes. So let's look at the video and then come back. I have super going ball. Okay I get it now. That was easy enough because this is eight pieces That meet with themselves. There's the sticking out Well, let's just open it up because it's time you guys We're sending in these little pieces Go through those holes And then they all go up and if all goes well without too much trouble They snap in and that that's pretty damn strong for you know, plastic the red and the blue Here we are that goes in like that. What do you know? Actually managed to But this one is There it goes The ones that are pinched in actually hold a single tile Whereas the ones that are pinched out This is the bottom of the tile above And this one is for the top of the tile below the entire ring lotus In the classic originally visioned Like flower form. It's going to take 15 rows nearly to the floor In this position. So we're going to have to raise this whole thing up and find another place for it and so on So this is all you know, it works the Whole point of the grid framework is to provide something that actually locks them all together at the tile level We're just we're just going to own that but now my My focus is on you know, okay How can I make it easier to disassemble and reassemble because I see that in my future So each lotus by itself needs five pinches of height One two three Four five. Okay guys next step is Start hooking these together laterally and Putting in all the feet in the overlap direction. So these things press fit laterally is what it is It's really once you get all these going strong That's it. That's now here's our feet I'm sorry. That's our claws. I guess I'll call them. So that's a full ring lotus Where I've now put a grid on top of it. All right, so that's not really a good way to do it But I think what that means is Is that Then we'll have to extend some more off this direction later in here That's going to be a tile Like that. There's their little barbs in there So here we go. Tile number one See now here. Here's what's happening. Here's an example of what happened when I disassembled busted one of the claws off and So that's another debtor The e and the f series which are not the most recent ones. Why don't we use the most recent ones of The latest g series tiles possible Okay These are both a's Which two different kinds of displays Is it for our overflow of that beautiful? I mean this project is Well, who knows where the hell it ends up who knows where the one when the clock runs out but It's an actual thing actually built these things Um, that's the lotus one surrounded by six surrounded by 12 19 the mystical power What shall we do now? I mean we could plug this thing up and try it Five it doesn't go an extra half a gauge. In fact, we will need later anyway way down the corner. So Well, uh Let's hang one more Strab just going to go with a regular hanger And this is the last A set of hangers in this box. I think we have one more box of hangers theoretically past Dave counted all this crap out already that is the Chronist of doing business not plugging up the whole grid, but I'm going to plug up Uh, this interface a data only to remind us that That is a power front here so that strange shape because it's part of a bigger ring destined To be constructed somewhere um Now we just need to plug up The data and power connections the within power zone connections here the within power zone connections here The some dp connectors until I find some reason not to Okay, this is already gonna be Did I had that wrong? Oh, geez had it upside down Well, but thank you shrouded header No damage was done now these deep again these tiles Uh have not been tested uh for intertile activity at all and history says that There may well be some Intertile connectors that don't work for whatever reason so we may be facing swapping while we probably will Be facing swapping some tiles out In the middle of this grid I think I have No excuse really Not to fire up 19 tiles That should be running hugey and actually everything comes up So I'll tuck this back And so you're ready for this here we go. All right now this is important actually and I can already see an issue here If you can see this there's a yellow line up here yellow line down here that means Uh these two tiles this one's southwest this one's north southeast this one's northwest are not communicating now it may just be because This connector Is it seated well and it may be Because there's a problem And that's what we're here to look into so the one for pulling So I am going to Power this one off empty if if we actually had a simulation. All right, there it is All clear all clear So we are pointing the fickle finger of fate at g 31 40 And that's it and so from there. I uh tried the Eugene that we saw at the opener For me the only the exciting part about that was that I actually Powered up lotus number two while uh Eugene was running on lotus number one and it actually survived Now again, that's not something that will work in the general case because the software is just too brittle But in the special case of just having stuff come up once it actually does work. Um, so We have 38 tiles now tested uh the ones around the edge haven't been completely tested But they've been somewhat tested uh in in in two lotuses Uh, you know, I'm starting to get a little bit of a clue actually based on problems from before that I think it's the southeast Tends to be the one that has the trouble So if I ran into another circumstance like that where I see a southeast northwest thing Failing to communicate in the future. I think I'm going to replace the southeast one first Why that would be I don't know So and then we've got 60 more that have been tested individually. Those are going to go into lotus three four five six and seven It's a long way to go. This thing is going to be pretty big It's it's going to be something like five feet by five feet Which you know, it doesn't sound like that much, but when you're right there, it's significant We got older tiles to um to refresh We may be able to just plug them in and use them because the image the underlying image hasn't actually changed that much But we'll see about that And we had one a board failure during the individual testing. We had one board failure during the assembly of lotus one The next steps on this, I mean The the science fiction Paperback bookshelf wall that I'm building these things on now. I'm not sure it's going to do it For holding up the whole well, I mean just I don't know It remains to be seen exactly where to build this thing For one, we're going to have a whole lotus and we'll have enough cooling and enough power enough room to get away And get a good shot at it with the camera and of course we've got to get the camera working better And so on and we can't do any of this until we can get the software stuff in better shape So that's where we were that was the image I dropped into the middle of the thing That's so we have lotus one and lotus two now The one over on the far side there, you know, we're going to have to that's good Um, I have to add more hangers outside the grid to make room for that But you know step by step lotus three. I think is the center lotus coming in So on the research front, uh, if you know getting my fingers All bleeding from plugging in claws and trying to pry them out again is a development Well, then the software to redesign is, uh, research I don't have a whole lot to say yet because I mean, I've got lots of thoughts I've done some spikes and little coding experiments just to try things out But it all might just get tossed on the trash down the road, but I do have some emerging thoughts and So the key design idea that's changing in my head is be a udp ish not tcp ish now that's you know networking jargon Tcp the whole idea of it is that it's a reliable stream If you say the alphabet abcde xyz The other person at the end of the thing will get abc bbb xyz Even if the underlying layer loses packets and has to retransmit them and do who knows what and so forth tcp promises Whereas udp says i'm going to take each a little bit abcdef I will send it if I lose it. I'm not going to tell you and I want to switch the event processing to udp ish Because it's just more honest In the peer-to-peer best effort world you really can't do tcp You really can't guarantee it the problem The problems just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger until a guarantee that tcp offers breaks Whereas udp says you know in fact when you use udp in the actual internet and so forth You know it best effort delivery is what udp does and most of the packets the vast majority of the packets get through Unless the network is really stressed and that's what we want for event processing step by step best effort cash updates and the exciting thing for me is and I'll talk about this next time but The the idea of the ring oscillator I've now got a spike where if you've got three tiles that are connected one two three in a little triangle They are doing a ring oscillator around the corner around three tiles. They're passing Shared clock around them so that rather than having the whole racing to see who can have an event What they're doing is saying, you know Well, it's your turn if you want it You've got it for this long and then pass it on then it goes on to the next time the next guy With a little bit of randomization to skip turns so that it doesn't get too much patterns And I've got a spike where that's actually working and I think it may help You know we'll see but we'll talk about that in the future So for now, uh, let's go on to outreach So, you know, I've been working on the science fiction stuff since 2019 I think You know first a novel then a novel again and then turn Chapter two of the novel into a short story the short story has been done for a while done Search Quiet Wake Vaughn Joy Manon is the author The pseudonym I'm using for it Um and you know, so I've been sending out to you know, select Friends and victims Who have read it and they provided great input and you know, the the story has gotten a lot better But I could dittle with it forever. So the idea is needed deadline and I'm going to send it off to uh as a mobs science fiction magazine It not the biggest science fiction magazine apparently, but it's the one that's sort of closest nearest dearest to my heart I mean, I've got my my probably biggest You know celebrity encounter story was that actually, you know, I shared a cab with isaac asmav in new york city Many many years ago. It's a short cab ride But we were both going to the same meeting and we ended up going to the wrong place So we shared a cab to get to the right place to do the meeting And asmav science fiction Says they'll turn it around fairly quickly like five weeks. So the idea is Let's submit it. Let's submit search quiet wake to asmav science fiction magazine right now Okay So, you know, here it is, you know, the the writer's guidelines, uh, you know the the amount of money they pay the amount of money they pay, you know I don't I don't even know how to guess Whether there's any chance that that They'll be interested in search quiet wake this particular story I do know that if they are it'll be because it got a whole lot better Since I first started showing it to a few people, but you know fruit's totally not about the money. All right. So here we go Online submissions. I haven't tried this yet because obviously I didn't have anything to submit so But let's do it All right All right, the title is search quiet wake They say the cover letter is optional and you're supposed to have your publishing history And you know, my publishing history is not science fiction. At least it wasn't intended to be so i'm going to just leave that out And now here it is 15 15 10 33. I think that's it You know, this shows my uh, incredible commitment to submit this story to to, uh, magazines. I've actually produced a doc file Uh, uh, I've produced it using an open office, but still is doc format. So Here we go. Uh, uh, I guess let's see what happens Cover letter required. They said it was optional Oh dear, what am I supposed to cover letter is optional? All right If you choose to include it it should include the length of your story Uh And your publishing history. Okay Uh about 4600 words Published science fiction. So we'll try again. Thank you for submission an email ticket not receive this email within two hours Okay, we'll see Five weeks with a range covering five weeks to three months. They didn't mention three months before you should expect a quick response Okay. Well, there it is. Uh, so we've now submitted a science fiction story I mean, I really want You know, the the folks who've been following the t2 tile project to to to get a look at this story and uh, you know, I Not sure how to do it. I've been trying not to put it out in public since I'm trying to sell the first north american serial rights All right, the clock is ticking. Uh Three five weeks to three months. We should expect a quick response That's it. Um, and So, uh next time. Um, oh, yeah. So, you know, once again, uh The opening bumper, uh with the computing creed First be robust then as correct as possible and as efficient as necessary Uh, I I'm still open. I'm still looking for folks who who might want to make a new one Andrew suggested I should put the details in the, uh, discord server and I didn't because I didn't Uh, uh, but you know, I just wanted to say one thing, you know, that I I actually have, uh, a history of sort of, you know, like No, never liking anything unless I did it myself, which is a real problem But, uh, what I just wanted to say about this one is that, you know, as long as we for this particular thing As long as we can get the words in, uh, um, and not run into any copyright issues, you know, I promise I will try it out Uh, uh in the in a future t Tuesday update, uh, and we'll see, you know, what what people think, um, and But that's it and beyond that, uh, so for next time I want to have which February 1 I want to have some more explicit tile event spikes I want to have a little bit more confidence that maybe this idea Uh, uh is got legs. Maybe it's got a chance of working, although I haven't actually I'm not going to hold myself to actually having events happen or all that because there's a ton of work to do Uh, once again have some fun and maybe maybe build more grid I don't know. We've got to we've got to figure out where this thing is going to have. It's kind of Temporary permanent home, uh, uh that we can, you know, get all of the physical properties of it working out That's it. Uh, thank you so much for coming whether you're here, uh, live for the stream or you're checking it out later I hope things are going all right, uh at your end and uh, I hope to see you next time