What is a Turing machine and why do people keep mentioning it? My IBM PC is all I need to …
computer-science theory turing-machines computabilityI read this in a book on computability: (Kleene's Theorem) A language is regular if and only if it can …
regular-language finite-automata formal-languages computability kleene-starI was recently reading about artificial life and came across the statement, "Conway’s Game of Life demonstrates enough complexity …
theory turing-complete computabilityI read Ken Thompson's classic paper Reflections on Trusting Trust in which he prompts users to write a Quine as …
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