Why is research measured in hashes?

[Snail Parkour]

Do you mean FLOPS? Hashes don't do anything except hash things.

[yes]

maybe theyre stored in a blockchain?

[ulzgoroth]

FLOPS wouldn't make sense - that's '... per second', not something you accumulate.

Hashes probably doesn't make sense either, but the research lore seems to be complete nonsense so it's hard to be entirely sure.

[Mister Veeg]

AFAIK it's being used as a measure of time, not necessarily size.

[HelmTo108]

I mean you're taking in thousands upon thousands of pieces of electronics and other random components and somehow performing a kind of space magic on them to divine how to make new technology.

None of it makes any sense.

From a terminology point of view, I guess they chose "hashing" because hashing is just taking arbitrary data and fixing them to finite points. So in a loose sense that is like ingesting huge data and processing it into nice tables of ordered data. In this case, those tables of data are....recipes for smelters and other junk.

[ulzgoroth]

I suspect yes is right about it being a blockchain reference. Which isn't to say that that makes sense.

[Snail Parkour]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

FLOPS wouldn't make sense - that's '... per second', not something you accumulate.

Hashes probably doesn't make sense either, but the research lore seems to be complete nonsense so it's hard to be entirely sure.

The research buildings produce "hashes per second" so (Giga/Tera/whatever)FLOPS would make sense there. It just feels weird to read a word with such a specific meaning used in such an inapplicable way, and if early access isn't the time to hash (aheheheheh) this kind of thing out when is? :)

Originally posted by yes:

maybe theyre stored in a blockchain?

Being simulated on a Matryoshka Brain using a proof of work protocol? Truly a fate worse than death.

edit: All the wasted power would explain why they need to keep eating suns though.

[Ancient]

I think hashing in this context is just referring to the ability of a hashing algorithm to compress a large data set into to a much smaller format.

Forgetting specific uses of hashing we have today, it's general, core definition in computer science is this:

Hashing is an algorithm that calculates a fixed-size bit string value from a file. A file basically contains blocks of data. Hashing transforms this data into a far shorter fixed-length value or key which represents the original string. The hash value can be considered the distilled summary of everything within that file.

I like to think of the various matrices as containing yobibytes of data and the research labs are hashing them down into byte-arrays that are only perhaps pebibytes or exbibytes in size in order to transfer the data back to the centrebrain.

[Stelk]

Or they given how hot my GPU runs on this game they are calculating bitcoin hashes :-)

/s

[BumpInTheNight]

Originally posted by Stelk:

Or they given how hot my GPU runs on this game they are calculating bitcoin hashes :-)

/s

I came here to make the same snide remark hah.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Stelk:

Or they given how hot my GPU runs on this game they are calculating bitcoin hashes :-)

/s

Originally posted by BumpInTheNight:

Originally posted by Stelk:

Or they given how hot my GPU runs on this game they are calculating bitcoin hashes :-)

/s

I came here to make the same snide remark hah.

Use the FPS limiter then?

This game is rather simple on GPU usage compared to more recent 2020 titles.

[Corrine]

I dont know everyone feels the need to overthink it. Dont worry about the terminology. Just look at the number of cubes needed to finish a research put them in and let the research lab do the work. Dont worry be happy.

[Saint_Aint]

It could be as simple as poor translation. Either way, it's a non issue for me.

[JOKESTER215]

I guess it doesn't really matter what unit it really uses considering some research takes longer than others when clearly the hashes should be around the same. It seems like the hashes just relates to how fast your labs can quickly upload information to the braincenter and it's just being transferred into hashes/hash data.