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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 09:31 PM EDT |
Not all computer hardward is necessarily built on OR, AND,
and NOT gates. It's common to build those gates out of NAND
gates. It doesn't undermine the underlying argument, but it
should be rewritten to avoid implying that all hardware works
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 11:09 PM EDT |
The last paragraph of the footnotes, first sentence -- seems to be missing
a few words? Something like:
"Programs intended to [be executed by] software implementations of
some universal algorithm..."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: feldegast on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:08 AM EDT |
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My posts are ©2004-2012 and released under the Creative Commons License
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:17 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: feldegast on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:19 AM EDT |
graphite??
otherwise so many school children would get poisoning....
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:23 AM EDT |
If it is multiple programming languages it is multiple semantics.
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| Authored by: grokpara on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 04:22 AM EDT |
In the sentence "In particular there is in mathematics random mathematical
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 08:24 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: nsomos on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 09:00 AM EDT |
PoIR wrote ...
If you don't know which one he chose you can't read the bits.
perhaps should be
If you don't know which one he chose you can't know for sure what the bits
mean.
You can certainly 'read' the bits, but it is the
interpretation of those bits which cannot be certain.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 10:31 AM EDT |
Unless you are thinking of LVDS or somesuch. Admittedly, on-chip and
CPU bus voltages are trending lower, because less power is used in
changing states.
(Christenson)
P.S. excellent reminder that there's nine ways to skin the algorithmic cat!
Can this be cleaned up and submitted as an Amicus brief?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
There are places that have the sequence —, but what the original has should be
placed into html as —
Three places in the 2nd and 4th paragraphs of the quote from MySpace, Inc. v.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
Footnote 6. "Bits are copyrightable whether or not they are watched by
humans."
It would probably be more accurate to say that "Sequences of bits are
copyrightable.."
I doubt a single bit or a random collection of bits is copyrightable.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT |
E=mC^2 does not imply that the mass, m, needs to be the rest
mass. For instance the rest mass of a photon is zero, but the
energy of a photon is given by Panck's formula E = h v (I use
v for I can't show Greek letters with this keyboard). If we
apply E=mC^2 to the photon we deduce that its "non-rest mass"
is m = hv/C^2 and its momentum is hv/C = mC both formulas
being correct even though the rest mass of the photon is zero.
In particle interactions both the energy and momentum must be
conserved so the photon has a mass for such interactions. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- rest mass - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 12:27 PM EDT
- rest mass - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 05:33 PM EDT
- rest mass - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 04:26 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 07:36 PM EDT |
| Just a typo [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: pcrooker on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 11:13 PM EDT |
Should this not be "An algorithm must be executable"? I can execute an
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 03:00 AM EDT |
YOU CAN USE LEGO PARTS TO CRETE COMPUTER.
THEN ITS MATTER OF MOVING THEM FROM PLACE TO PLACE, AND INTERPRETING THEIR
PRESENCE OR ABSENCE.
It was proved that you can build full turring machine from standard lego parts
(only limited in computation power by number of available parts and speed of
physical movement).
Some nice video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSAiF9AHN4[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 09:15 AM EDT |
"The formula is not the algorithm. This procedure is the algorithm. Someone
with sufficient skills in mathematics will know the algorithm simply by looking
at the formula."
The formula is actually describing at least three different algorithms. The one
you described, and at least one for finding each of the other two variables.
(Yes, c is a constant, but you could theoretically use this formula to get an
accurate value for it. Not sure how though)
Commutative operations are so nice, you only realise how nice they are when
you're forced to work ina space without them.
Not sure if this is actually relevent or not.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 04:30 PM EDT |
| In 3rd paragraph of section "Data and Computations Are Contents" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tinstaafl on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 05:50 PM EDT |
"There is no way of carrying out a mathematical computation without
actually *writing* the symbols." (my emphasis)
What about mental calculation? And if a machine makes the marks in some memory
space is stilled called writing? I don't think it's correct to use the term
'writing'. Perhaps 'representing' instead?
"There is no way of carrying out a mathematical computation without
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| Authored by: Marc Mengel on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
I"m pretty sure the "usual" TTL gates use 0 and 5 volts,
while newer circuits drop it to 0 and 3.5 volts. It's
listed as 0.5V and 0.35V various places...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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