Bloke builds Turing machine

[0iD]

Bloke builds Turing machine

We were scouring the world wide wibble and we found a Wisconsin bloke who has built a machine which can perform Alan Turing’s 1936 thought experiment on computable numbers.

In the paper Turing describes a machine that has an infinitely long tape upon which it writes, reads and alters symbols. He further shows that a machine with the correct minimal set of operations can calculate anything that is computable, no matter the complexity.

Quite cool this

[Terbinator]

I'd agree its cool if it wasnt the topic were currently trying to get our heads round in Computing () which instead makes me view the machine like an arse-cancer.

[cptwhite_uk]

I'm not sure I fully understand the applications or implications of this. Further reading is needed me thinks.

Edit: Wait this isn't a ****ty 2 days early April Fools is it, it sniffs quite badly

[Disturbedguy]

Thanked wrong person, have one for free <3


Ahh the joys of binary/ subnetting <3

[matty-hodgson]

So it basically a >1Hz processor?

[Odc]

I'd agree its cool if it wasnt the topic were currently trying to get our heads round in Computing () which instead makes me view the machine like an arse-cancer.

This was me last year. Can't stand the bloody things! DFAs and all that garb

Having said that, it is pretty cool

[Rob_B]

Yep, I still don't get WTF it does or why it's the greatest thing ever made