Why do computers sometimes act in random ways?

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farmerjohn1324

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If computers are built on logic circuits that act completely independently of any thought and are machines...

Then why do they seemingly act in random ways sometimes?

Do you experience this?
 
farmerjohn1324 said:
If computers are built on logic circuits that act completely independently of any thought and are machines...

Then why do they seemingly act in random ways sometimes?

Do you experience this?
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A lot of it ties into user error. ;)

There's also errors in programming through thousands and thousands of lines of code.
You also have to realize out of the billions of transistors in your PC that a few of them may not be holding the correct binary value in the case of failing hardware and similar.
 
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beers said:
A lot of it ties into user error. ;)

There's also errors in programming through thousands and thousands of lines of code.
You also have to realize out of the billions of transistors in your PC that a few of them may not be holding the correct binary value in the case of failing hardware and similar.
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Yea, it is pretty amazingly intricate, isn't it?

It's a wonder they even work in the first place.
 
farmerjohn1324 said:
Yea, it is pretty amazingly intricate, isn't it?

It's a wonder they even work in the first place.
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Based off my digital logic class it's actually very simple at the base level. It's an amazingly different type of thinking and gets massively complex as it builds upon itself.
 
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Darren said:
Based off my digital logic class it's actually very simple at the base level. It's an amazingly different type of thinking and gets massively complex as it builds upon itself.
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Simple in the sense of.....

If "this", then "this"... logic.... BUT....

How hard would it be to build a computer from scratch? Did you know that the factories that they build computers in are cleaner than hospitals?

And to invent transistors, etc. to be able to do this?

It might be easy to USE a computer, but to build them in the first place????

The inspiration was to crack codes during WWII.
 
They are not that hard to do on a simple level such as a very basic cpu and RAM. It just would perform basic actions. it gets much harder if you tried to build a current gen Intel cpu for instance lol. It would take time to design everything from scratch but it's quite possible to design and build as long as you had knowledge of logic gates and the different parts of a cpu.

I once saw a guy build a working replica cpu on minecaft with a working GPU and screen that you could play pong on which I thought was quite cool.
 
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