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Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete
TsukiKage writes "A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter."
I guess that's why you're here.
...an XKCD comic in the near future.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
A use for Carnival of Souls.
Who in their right mind would play such obvious trash?
Surprisingly, lots of people.
People pull knifes on each other over Magic in my hood.
This guy didn't just earn his nerd card, he earned a nerd obelisk in his front yard.
No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
Does the computer run faster if you have more rare cards in the deck?
Learn to love Alaska
There is a group of guys at my workplace who do it every day on their lunch hour. And not a one of them would understand this story
Or how to make a baby.
make baby
As you can see above, baby making is not hard. Even the deployment, painful as it is, is an one-off per child.
What should worry anyone is: keeping input feed at right levels and correlated with "running"/"longjump"-ing/whatever, anti-malware protection, constant patching (as in: a new iGadget to keep in sync with the other "daemons" in the scho... err... system) and all other maintenance activities.
These letting aside no possible way of hardware upgrades for the tens of years of lifetime and not manufacturer warranty from the very first day.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Do you realize what this means?
Given sufficient time and mana, we could simulate a game of Magic within a game of Magic!
Vaguely related
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
Even worse, with the baby code base, recursion is deeply frowned upon!
Any sufficiently advanced technologyis indistinguishable from Magic.
well there's an 8-bit processor in minecraft... http://boingboing.net/2010/11/12/working-8-bit-cpu-in.html
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