Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!

Rik702 writes "Wolframscience.com have announced that an undergraduate from Birmingham, UK has proved Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine is universal." You can read a pdf of the proof as well as some related coverage.

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Re:A New Kind of Science

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You don't read a lot of serious science here because this isn't the place for it.

Every so often a fairly specialized technical discussion will crop up and even to people like me, who are casually interested, it is obvious that people who are serious about the subject are posting. They don't write full blown journal quality posts because a) see above, and b) as you correctly point out, Slashdot's demographic on the whole doesn't have the higher level knowledge necessary to understand them.

But that doesn't mean there isn't an interesting discussion going on. On the contrary, there are good opportunities to interact with serious people you would otherwise never be able to access. If you can effectively ignore the "I got wireless working under Linux so I know everything" mentality anyway.

Along the lines of the RIAA submissions from NewYorkCountryLawyer. How many attorneys who actively defend against RIAA lawsuits as their primary practice do you meet in a day?