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[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Breaking: turing-complete system can simulate any turing machine

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

PowerPoint is Turing Complete

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

How had I never seen this? This is brilliant!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Theoretically, anything that can implement boolean logic can be used to build a Turing-complete CPU. It just needs to represent a "true" state", a "false" state, a way to make a comparisons, and an input and output mechanism to feed other subunits or retrieve data from them. Stuff like this has also been implemented using water pumps/valves, and even in Minecraft using redstone. Computers don't have to be based on electronics.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In short, everything that is Turing-conplete can compute anything.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Except for that which is non-computable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Like yo Mama's weight!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

New to me that there is proof that something is not computable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

The most obvious answer to this is the halting problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That doesn't compute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this has also been implemented using water pumps/valves, and even in Minecraft using redstone.

Or even in Minecraft using water pumps/valves

https://youtu.be/a1JsjYLn1Vo?si=FwaHXzSSuBCHNjyH

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/a1JsjYLn1Vo?si=FwaHXzSSuBCHNjyH

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

No! Bad boy! Very bad boy! Sit!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

On modern CPUs? Almost.