Never having to worry about my cell phone, while getting to watch all you gullible bozos complain about not being able to change your ringtone: priceless
For those of you who think this guy is making a bad decision, I'd like to say that you shouldn't be so quick to judge. My hippie parents sold me off for $3000 worth of LSD back in 1971, and I've turned out just fine.
>A 'proper' Turing machine is supposed to be able to take on infinitely many states, OK?
No, a Turing machine has finitely many states, but an infinite memory. That means you need an infinitely long piece of tape which has a finite language printed on it. It's not that the tape is filled with an infinite number of symbols, but that you need to be able to always write one more symbol at the end. And no, we don't need to be reminded that a perfect TM is physically impossible.
After reading this article and the article on the tinkertoy "computer", it surprises me what people consider to be a computer. Did anyone else notice the fact that the train "computer" is just pushing digits around? It computes in *unary*, which is the most inane operation one can think of. We're supposed to be impressed if someone can get a machine to take the input,
11011101 (Meaning 2+3+1)
and produce the output,
11111100 (meaning 6)?
I'd rather use my much more powerful hands... I mean... autobiological computers.
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Yeah, me too:
2431 int
1802 goto
It's not. Read Tom Wolfe.
Can anyone provide a SS of IE7 viewing the acid2 test?
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Never having to worry about my cell phone, while getting to watch all you gullible bozos complain about not being able to change your ringtone: priceless
I believe the correct term is "toss their cookies".
alias apt-remove="apt-get remove" foo'
Does this mean that now, when the train breaks down every week, the MTA will just blame it on hackers?
For those of you who think this guy is making a bad decision, I'd like to say that you shouldn't be so quick to judge. My hippie parents sold me off for $3000 worth of LSD back in 1971, and I've turned out just fine.
Using unary is one thing. But no one should get an award for adding in it.
>A 'proper' Turing machine is supposed to be able to take on infinitely many states, OK? No, a Turing machine has finitely many states, but an infinite memory. That means you need an infinitely long piece of tape which has a finite language printed on it. It's not that the tape is filled with an infinite number of symbols, but that you need to be able to always write one more symbol at the end. And no, we don't need to be reminded that a perfect TM is physically impossible.
After reading this article and the article on the tinkertoy "computer", it surprises me what people consider to be a computer. Did anyone else notice the fact that the train "computer" is just pushing digits around? It computes in *unary*, which is the most inane operation one can think of. We're supposed to be impressed if someone can get a machine to take the input, 11011101 (Meaning 2+3+1) and produce the output, 11111100 (meaning 6)? I'd rather use my much more powerful hands... I mean... autobiological computers.