Understanding the Human-Powered Computer from ‘The Three-Body Problem’

Understanding the Human-Powered Computer from 'The Three-Body Problem'

Friends who have read “The Three-Body Problem” will surely remember that iconic scene where von Neumann asks Qin Shi Huang to arrange thirty million soldiers to form a human computer. The soldiers use black and white flags to represent signals, replacing binary for calculations. Image from a screenshot of the “Three-Body Problem” TV series Don’t … Read more