[ars]

There's nothing wrong with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children

[pests]

Reminds me of the old videos on the Mill CPU architecture. There is multi hour long video about “the belt”, a primary concept in understanding the Mill architecture and instruction scheduling. It’s portrayed in the slides as an actual belt with a queue of items about to be processed, etc.

Only in the end to reveal the belt is truely conceptualized and does not formally exist. The belt is an accurate visual representation and teaching tool, but the actual mechanics emerge from data latches and the timing of releasing the data, etc.

I thought it was helpful.

[watersb]

https://youtu.be/QGw-cy0ylCc

Is this an asynchronous architecture CPU?

[Dylan16807]

It's not. I'm curious what gave you that idea, though?

The belt moves once per cycle, if that wasn't clear? He says the word "cycle" (and measures latency in cycles) a lot.

[ZoomZoomZoom]

That's how you get a whole population imagining mitochondria as puffy gelatinous beans, instead of network around other organelles.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-00269-y/index.ht...