A Computer That Runs on Marbles
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- In this video I show you a device called Turing Tumble that is an actual working computer with real logic. I show you how it can count, add, subtract and even multiply. I talk about how computers can do simple things very fast.
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Believe it or not, that was one of the best demos I've seen explaining how binary works and how a CPU functions. Good video.
It was....the best amd most simplified version..way to go man.... awesome..
True.
True
True
True
"I think the computer is corrupted"
"It probably lost its marbles"
Bravo
LOL
😂🤣😂 killed it
Amazing comment
Perfection
Calculator, what is the answer of 5 + 8?
Calculator: It is 1 + 4 + 8
Haha, yeah. But it's only translation to binary. Then it translates the results back to decimal and lights the right pattern on the screen.
Hahaha once you have enough bits set up you can make the computer tell you in your language 😁
@@zackjandali Yes, but... can it feel... love?!
@@RedGallardo well it could, but... the thing which it feels love to would be already dead
@@RedGallardo Most calculators use Binary Coded Decimal, where each digit in decimal is actually 4 bits.
In BCD, 37 would be: 0011 0111 because (3) (7)
First seconds impression: "Nice machin WTF THAT MOUSTACHE"
Hah.. I found the moustache comment
1970's porn lol
@@DoctorRocker66 how do you know that??
👁️👁️
👄
It's glorious
As someone who took digital electronics, this seems like a very efficient way to present it. Good work, man. You probably just created a handful of programmers.
I wish he didn't speed up the marbles because they are too fast for me to process and understand how it even works. I need a Slow-Motion version :D
@@atriyakoller136 just slow down speed of video
@@atriyakoller136 Freeze the video just before the marble starts tumbling down, and then advance frame by frame with the ">" key or back frame by frame, with the "
I wish I had this to conceptualize it, during class. And a speed course on how to count binary.
He calls them balls, not marbles.
when you are not allowed to use a calculator in exams
@Abhijit Prajapati huh??
😂😂😂😂 GENIUS!!!
It takes an eternity to calculate one equation. so Invizilator will allow you to make calculations using this..He won't care..lol
@bent_dog_4892 your brain can also be a calculator but they're not about to mummify you
lol the time will run out before you finish the exam because it takes long time to build and calculate
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary numbers, and those who don’t.
I see what you did there😂😂
Gottem
I was thinking of that Joke during the video...and here it is, second comment 👍🏻
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who prefer ternary.
yes smart*ss
This great demonstration is a revelation for me. I used to think of computers as smarter-than-human machines. But, all the meaning that I perceived from this video was billions of switches getting truned on and off.
well, the specific arrangement of the switches is very specific, subtle, and important
@@valinorean4816 LLC lj mam all like
@@jamesgornall5731 what?
@@valinorean4816 no idea think I replied in my sleep
@@jamesgornall5731 if this happens again you might wanna see the doctor
"True magic of computers is not that they can do complex things, but they can do simple things quickly"
~James
Mr. Anonymous and then we make AI to make complex things simple
That was so pleasant to hear
@@thesabre8458 correction: we use AI to make complex things the laziest, sometimes stupidest way. 🤣
Is there truly a difference? Is there anything in nature that is smart that isn't just doing many simple things quickly?
@@IceMetalPunk which is why we have ai, which is the art of getting computers to learn which simple calculations matter
10 people disliked this video because neither of them understand binary.
like it!
Nah they are just jealous of that fabulous moustache.
actually at least one of them knows this was made years ago by MIT
This is just a copy of it
Funny its down to 9 dislikes now. Someone switched from 0 to 1.
@@Razor805 You made me fkn laughing man fkkk loll.
Great video, here are some notes.
The machine in the video is neither a CPU nor a Turing machine since it can only be programmed to perform one instruction and stop.
It has only a handful of hand-programmed registers, no other memory, and each instruction it can perform must be hand programmed.
You could call it a hand-programmable ALU (Arithmetic-Logic Unit).
To be a CPU it would also need to be able to execute a series of instructions automatically, including branches and jumps.
To get a Turing machine it would also need an expandable memory bank added to it.
You can use this machine as a building block for making an actual computer, but such a computer would be so much bigger and much more complicated, probably taking up an entire room.
Probably one of the most practical examples of what a computer is that I've ever seen! Excellent work!
Next video: "How I made self-aware AI that runs on marbles"
It is this video that shows very well our digital world, which is not even close to the so-called artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is just a commercial sticker that makes sales easier. We are nowhere near real artificial intelligence, although machines are very convincing in their intelligence simulations. So it should be called an intelligence simulator (SI), not AI. It will take a very long time for real artificial intelligence to appear with its own artificial ego.
@@DL-kc8fc you're nowhere near being actually intelligent. you are the robot.
@@disabledchatzen5276 The Google translator nicely demonstrates what it's like with the so-called "artificial intelligence" when it can't translate into a language with little vocabulary, ie English.
@@DL-kc8fc It's a joke.
Yeah, kinda insane but true. If we work the same, it means a self-aware life can be created of "mechanical" parts. Then we'll have to admit it's the Universe that's alive, and we're only waves on its surface.
Intel: Let's make computer chip out of marbles!
If they did, at least then they would be releasing a different product whereas the last several years have been same architecture and process nodes... hell, even their 10 series is just another refresh of their cpus they release a couple years ago. :P
Just think of electrons as tiny little marbles :D
Keep the likes 69 😂
@@hisensberg1450 lol
Michael Hanson 14 nm++++++
This is one of the clearest binary system explanations I've ever seen, good job man
That was amazing! I've seen the film about Alan Turing and how he built his computer to decipher enigma. But just watching how this works in miniature and that it really does come up with the correct answers is totally fascinating. Thank you for sharing this.
Them:- You can't make a computer on a sketchboard without electricity.
My bro:- hold my marbles
Marbles go brrrrr
@@wessmall7957 yep. Haha
ippon xD +1
The :- symbol is outdated
@@SFSAtlas I never seen that before. Nothing's outdated.
This guy gives Wintergatan's music machine a decent challenge
Does a mustache make you infamous?
Does a mustache make you infamous?
does a mustache make you infamous?
Hello again
Jellal
One of the best Action Lab videos ever!! Didn't know this is really how computers worked
I’m 22 years old and this is the first time I understood how a microchip and a computer really works! Thank you 😊 keep creating such content
“Mom can I have a calculator?”
Mom: We have a calculator at home.
*Calculator at home:*
This joke is more funny every 20000 times it's used =P
This calculator looks more fun to watch.
I don't get it
Can it run minesweeper?
Yes you can make a knockoff version allot easier as well
You can make a " random number generator"
Then use it's out put to prime a second board
Or several boards on the second layer and
And depending on how far you you want to deviate
Alternatively you can do this all on a huge board but will be messy
Bigger. BIGGER!!!
@@icodestuff6241 have you seen Plinko
if enough bits and simplified graphics then yes
i learnt more with this channel than i will ever learn in my entire school career
This is one of my all-time favorite videos ever. Great job!
Note: A Turing machine is a *theoretical* machine that operates with infinite memory. It’s not a real machine, but rather a mathematical construct used to classify what types of problems can be solved by a machine.
I think the word you are looking for is *turing complete*. Any machine (or programming language) that is Turing complete can be said to simulate a Turing machine and thus be able to solve the same types of problems.
Ok genius we get, no one is here is become a computer or a software engineer after this....
@@fanboyhater832 but they might pretend to be online after this.
But the marble computer isn't turing complete, though.
@@Wetefah I felt the same way, I was not convinced that this marble setup is actually Turing complete, then I looked it up, turns out I was right. The parts shown in this video are not enough to make the computer turing complete, you actually need a bit of gearing included in this kit in order to emulate a turing machine.
@@fanboyhater832 I am! More knowledge and insight.
But how anybody gets to understand in what way to set up this thing so that it follows a certain logic is beyond me.
Even though it's so simple but so complicated for me, i give things more than it takes idk
That's what programmers do :) They invent algorithms, whether they are computed by a so-basic machine or a computer! The "smarter" the programmer is, the more efficient the algorithm will be.
Computer science undergrad here, the way they did it is building abstractions over abstractions, with a bunch of transistors you can make logical gates, once you have logical gates, you don't care about transistors anymore, and you work with logical gates, you then build operations with the logical gates, and stop worrying about the gates, you start talking about operations (sums, rests, multiplications) you then go on building more complex operations using the operations you have, when a programmer works with a computer, he usually works with the complex stuff others have built for him
@nerdexpoeject
yr not alone.Im with u 2. :))
Daniel well said Daniel
This has got to be one of the coolest videos I've ever seen.
An excellent way of teaching basic microprocessor logic. Definitely makes it interesting. Maybe could have included a little more detail on how he "programmed" it to do what he did, but overall excellent
Me: Mom, can I have a computer?
Mom: Asher, we already have a computer at home!
Computer at home:
AshKohn47 lol
AshKohn47 lol
AshKohn47 lol
I am afshar
AshKohn47 lol
This was a fun video! Technically, it's powered by gravity _with_ marbles... but I know what you mean, I've seen a large scale version of one at the Maker Faire it was a lot of fun to watch and teaches aspects of computer architecture... having taught this subject myself in California State University, I can say that you make this subject matter accessible to everyone, including young viewers, and wish I had all this when I was growing up. My first exposure to binary was during a visit to the Exploratorium in San Francisco. I was about 8 yrs old and there was an interactive exhibit (they all were) with switches and lights and I self-taught myself (nobody around to explain how it worked) but I had fun learning how to play the conversion game... when I figured it out it was like a lightning bolt of inspiration that hit me... you're doing good work here on You Tube... I hope you had the time to read my lengthy comment! (we live in a TLDR world)
I read your comment, it was great and inspirational!
Even more technically, it's powered by his arms lifting the marbles up to the top of the machine, giving them potential energy.
@@aaardvaaark and activating the first marble drop too, starting the chain reaction
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@@SeriouslyWeirdDream Well said.
This is simply one of the best class I ever received in computer science. It's simply fascinating when someone explains analysis in these terms.
Computers are NOT trivial.
Absolutely amazing! I showed it to my high school computer science class. Half had an epiphany and the rest were just mesmerized. Even the "slackers".
Wow that's neat! It's mind boggling to imagine this happening billions of times per second on the device we're using to type and watch this video on!
No one has ._.
Image one guy that can add two 8-bit binary numbers together in a second. Now imagine 8 of those guys working as a team to add two 64 bit numbers together in a second. Now imagine a warehouse of 1000 teams adding numbers together. Now imagine 1000 of these warehouses. Now, in about 20 minutes, these 1000 warehouses can add up as many numbers as a computer can in 1 second.
I liked this video because it explained me how computer just understands everything using just 1 & 0
I love the way you visually show complicated topics, like I didn’t understand binary or computers at all but now I can visualize them better
The 280 people that disliked the video did that cause they didn't understand binary or were jealous that they couldn't do such *mind boggling* stuff like this man does... Hats off mann👍🏼
I've learnt from you more than that from my computer teacher.. 😂
The Action Lab: Now that we know we can count...
Time to sing the alphabet
Time to sing the alphabet
Not gonna ruin the 69 likes lol
Look at that mustache
Looks great
It is getting bigger!
Supermario
I hadn't seen his videos in a while and thought he was wearing a fake one
This just gave me the scope of how genius Allan Turing is and all the people who pioneedred the Computer.
It's mad that Turing invented this nearly 100 years ago and I'm sat watching an explanation of exactly how it all works and I'm still completely lost! Guy was a genius!
This is actually a game with puzzles and even a plot where you fix a computer and find out many things about the mysterious planet you are stranded on.
As someone in the IT world who understands WHAT the hardware is capable of doing, this was an incredible explanation of a concept I've struggled to understand, which is HOW the hardware does what is does. Thank you!
pretty mind blowing that someone came up with this!! thank you for explaining this in such an accessible way
Best video I’ve seen on this. Great Job!
I bought one of these last year and LOVED it. I'm a computer scientist and a lot of the puzzles were easy. But there were some really excellent puzzles where you felt like a genius once you solved it.
Interesting facts:
- both with addition and subtraction, the left register always decrements and the right register increments or decrements, respectively.
- flippers setup for incrementing is the exact mirror of that for decrementing.
- incrementing setup is made so:
--- top most bit (most insignificant bit) flipper always flip
--- any bit that happens to flip to the right (0 -> 1) takes a route to avoid all bits below it
--- any bit that happens to flip to the left (1 -> 0) flips the bit immediately below.
I’m a little confused. Why did it take 10 balls to add 5 & 8? How does the machine know when to stop sending balls? Or was that manual?
Edit: I see it, the final ball is caught after 13 is reached and not allowed to follow through to activate the ball drop lever. Actually that could have been pointed out. Thank you.
Thanks
Yeah, I had to watch them all on slo-mo a few times to understand. He could have added a real time decimal counters for each register to show the current values and slowed down the marble drops to make it clearer but it's still a great video!
@@samhorne5184 thats terrible for audience retention and it will drive his channel into the ground
Falling balls just provide energy for the machine
That was the second thing he showed, even before counting the number of bald
Awesome way to explain computing!! I can see how much effort and patience you must have put into making this video... A BIG THUMBS UP!!!
Calling a computer a black box is like calling a human a piece of flesh.
Thats a good one😂😂😂
Boomers: well duh, the computer is the thing on the desk not the trash can on the floor
"It helps no one to be reductive"
-Xavier
Blackbox is a device that works mysteriously, but you can still use it to do works for you.
I think it's an engineering terms.
Black box is just a term for something where it does what you want but you have no idea how it works on the inside.
I always wondered how computers actually worked at the core or how a simple calculator always got the right answer. Thanks for this
One of the best video i have ever watched on youtube.....Thanks a lot for explaining this to me🔥🔥
Same pinch👍👍👍
Fantastic! After many years of trying and failing, I finally understand computers!
I've always known how computers work, but I still can't imagine how we create actual chips and computer systems that turn 1s and 0s into the games and programs we see today.
Even more amazing considering a transistor is just a few atoms wide
I know right? Even the fact that your normal electric fan can run all from a simple signal of electricity.. Its crazy.
You should take a look at Ben eater videos he has a bunch of videos that will help you, he even creates a gpu using logic gates.
Wesley Lima - He has a series of videos building a basic computer from scratch. Really informative for anyone interested in programming or digital electronics. I wish they had this level of teaching when I was in school.
That because its not sth one person do. Maybe there are someone out there who study this thing alot. But originally, computer was simple and it getting more complex and complex by different smart people over the century. So unlese u are as smart as hundred of smart people combine, u cant do all of that alone.
They create abstraction for complex stuff. So instead of coding from the core itself of 0 and 1. People create a program that are more user friendly to us. For example: operating system like Window10. Then within that program, people create a program to create another program for example: Unity, a software that ppl use to create game. Then inside the game, some developer allow user to create their own level. Its just abstraction within abstraction
Nice mustache
As a programmer i am very fascinated with this topic, thanks for the video
You Khazar
Genious, love the way he explains with passion and easily understandable
I remember when this dude hardly had any subscribers... But it's videos like these that has earned him so many subscribers.
Why is the most interesting parts sped up :(
Seriously, at least give us a few marbles going through it
You can slow down the speed of the video to ¼ of its normal speed. But I agree.
right? lol
Hi
I also would love a real time speed of this video!
When I explained digital computer circuits to my dad, he remarked "They can only count up to one!"
But very quickly.
I love the Action Lab, thank you for your content
I’ve worked with computers for years and this is the best explanation I’ve seen, I’ll never look at them the same way.
Now this one was my favorite video! Excuse me while I go make my own computer!
I’m working on a Minecraft computer...
Are you????? Really?
@@sudipbaral7962 search "redstone computer"
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Sudip Baral yeah, but it might not work out the best lol
Redstone without limits has some good tutorials if it helps.
This video is so underrated. Such a wonderful video!
This is just brilliant.. I almost cried on how superb it is demonstrated!! I need such a board for my kids now! This is way more simplistic than trying to explain logical elements with Minecraft Redstone Dust.
You do what?
This is awesome! I see why you accelerated the marbles falling part of the video (otherwise the video would take too long), but can you also upload the normal speed version as a part 2? Even on 0.25x it's too fast to understand lol.
Man really be teaching way easier, fun and understandable maths and computer better than school education
Probably the coolest video I ever seen, Its basic coding.
One of the best explanations on the subject!
Oh gosh, now he has a moustache - he is looking more and more like Tesla
Bro true
Bruh he has a moustache 😂.. not beard
2020: a computer that runs on marbles
3020: a computer that runs on memes
4020: a computer that runs on Jenna Marbles
5020 : world of magic (science)
@@shopenil1157 The best kind of magic! The magic of reality!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
@@Wonders_of_Reality Ikr science is awesome!
6020: a computer run on milk.
Exactly what I've been wondering for years. Thank you.
Dude this was awesome. Great video
"Lets see how many balls we have"
Me: Uh Oh
I felt dizzy thinking of how my mind can't keep up with my cellphone processing speed. We have a monster in our hand.
Computers are really dumb monsters though. Elementary school kids can do all of the basic functions that a CPU can do, it takes smart people to figure out how to do something useful with the ability to do those basic operations billions of times a second.
@@danieljensen2626 oh, yeah, I could do calculus in elementary
@@danieljensen2626 tell that to my 5 Ghz intel core i9
Wait 20 years when you refer to it as "that antique piece of crap?" 🤣
@@rogg0224 THe computer doesn't do calculus the way humans do. They perform multiple simple calculations at ridiculous speeds to achieve results. Most normal humans would just pass that problem through a formula. So a computer is basically an elementary schooler with super speed.
That video is amazing! Just what I always wanted to understand.
This is one of the best video on the RUclips.
When you are so early that there are no good comments.
Well then you should write the good comment
There are never good comments. Not anymore thanks to the "Nobody" trend
Turing in the 19 thirties: when you're too early there're no good computers
Instructions unclear.
Accidentally wound up with 42.
i really enjoyed this explanation about the thinking mechanism of a computer.
I think its best video u have created. Now i know whats the use of computer organisation subject in computer study.
Isn't Alan Turing the guy that helped decipher German radio messages or something during WW2?
Yeah and the machine he used to do that was Turing machine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine#Breaking_Enigma
@@pushkarsaoji7734 Enigma was first decyphered in Poland, in 1932, by humans.
Yeah Alan Turing
*Me:* So, y'see... computers don't do very much at all, but they do it very quickly
*My GF:* Then you have a lot in common!
*Me:* [awkward silence]
Damn 😕
😂
Got the inverse problem here 🤣
Hope lectures will use this videos in coming days...students will benefit a lot from this.
Amazing. Really good demo of how computers work.
Okay you explained to me what 2 years of school couldn't.
6:04 with that ultra tech calc we can multiply 2*3 in only 10 seconds
Thanks for this. My kids and I enjoyed watching it.
This is my favorite action lab video
I bet you could overclock that board to .2 Hz. with some tweaking.
First mod, put device in a vacuum
I understood to a point. I’ll need a book like: “Computer Basics for Absolute Morons” to understand. 😐
😁
i can be ur book. i know how to explain it
"But how do it know?" by J Clark Scott is one of the best books I have ever read. It explains how each component of a computer is made from the ground up, starting with simple logic gates.
@@posalusa24 Thanks!!!!
learn the binary system first (as this video did not really teach it properly), then the rest will be easy to understand
Great channel...I really mean it. Has answered so many questions I never knew I had lol
Awesome video mate. And.. The moustache.. Just wow.
In Mother Russia, we used to use these computers
We know
@@ithaca2076 Am i on watchlist too? :O
@@tapank415 yea
Ey ma nigga vlad! Wassup homie?
Так вот на что вы время тратите, Владимир Владимирович! Нет чтобы поработать на благо государства!
That’s what you spend your time on, Vladimir Vladimirovich! As if you couldn’t do something useful for your state!
Me: how much is the total
The shop keeper: hold on let me use my calculator
*The calculator
Me: waits for eternity
This guy makes some of the best explanations for things
This is your best video, Thank you !
I can never take it seriously when someone says `balls’
that's why i am telling people not to start the computer definetion by saying "computer is a electronic device"😂
I know how to count binary with my fingers since I can remember but now I understand how it works. Great video
The perfect topic of the whole chanel