#turing machine

[thedetectivethepirate]

He deserved so much better.

#benedict cumberbatch #cumberbitches #cumbercollective #imitation game #alan turing #turing machine

[brigittemarlt]

The man who has broken the code. Alan Turing  is one of Derek’s most memorable portrayal. Emotionally intense. Turing should have been a hero of his time. He was finally a victim of Intolerance. He has contributed to save mankind. And mankind has betrayed him. What Derek did here is more than an artistic performance. It is also a personal tribute to a great man. He has highly contributed by his talent to put Turing’s work and life into light and given him the recognition that he deserved (photo : Martha Swope)

#derek jacobi #alan turing #the turing test #turing machine #lamachinedeturing #breaking the code #broadway #theatre royal haymarket #guilford #enigma #bletchley park #great british actors #british legends #british theatre

[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

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[maxwellshimbo]

So last week I learned that slime moulds can solve the Traveling Salesperson problem in linear time.

My first thought was So PvsNP is solved??

But then I remembered that slime moulds are not Turing machines.

#hi it’s me #i'm back #kinda #catering to noone but myself #slime mould #slime moulds #traveling salesman #traveling salesperson #p vs np #theoretical computer science #turing machine #alan turing

[cyphorical]

ChatGPT on Philosophy

Q: If I said that "the universe is its own hardware and software" what theories and authors does that sound like?

A: The idea that "the universe is its own hardware and software" can be interpreted in different ways, but it could be related to several philosophical and scientific theories.

One possible interpretation of this statement is that the universe is a self-organizing system that operates according to its own laws and rules, without any external influence or intervention. This idea is consistent with certain philosophical schools such as pantheism, which views the universe as a divine or spiritual entity.

From a scientific perspective, this idea is similar to the concept of emergence, which is the phenomenon whereby complex systems can arise from simple interactions between their components, without the need for a central controlling entity. The universe could be seen as an emergent system that is self-organizing and self-regulating, with its own "hardware" (the physical laws and constants that govern its behavior) and "software" (the patterns and structures that emerge from those laws).

This idea could be related to the work of several scientists and philosophers, including:

Baruch Spinoza, who proposed a pantheistic view of the universe as a single, infinite substance that encompasses everything

Alan Turing, who developed the concept of a universal Turing machine, which is a theoretical model of a computer that can simulate any other computer or computation

Stephen Wolfram, who has proposed that the universe can be seen as a computational system that generates complex patterns and structures through simple rules and interactions (in his book "A New Kind of Science")

David Deutsch, who has proposed that the universe can be seen as a universal quantum computer that performs calculations through the interaction of elementary particles (in his book "The Fabric of Reality")

#chatgpt #reference #spinoza #alan turing #wolfram #David Deutsch #emergence #philosophy #The Fabric of Reality #A New Kind of Science #turing machine #pantheistic #reality #universe #Self-organizing system #Quantum computer #books #hardware #software

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Wait, are Humans Turing Complete?

#computing #mathematics #turing machine #neuroscience #I don’t think Humans are Turing Machines #I think we’re something else

[theribthatgrewback]

i might just be outta the loop but has anyone tried computing with the zonai devices in totk yet? just to see if it's possible? i figure you could use rockets as signal carriers between different pieces or something. like make an And gate with some large mass that's too heavy to move with one rocket but could be moved with two.

#totk #loz #tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #the legend of zelda #comp sci #computer science #coding #engineering #computer engineering #turing machine #tech #technology #zonai device

[forgottenbones]

Turing Machines - How Computer Science Was Created By Accident

#up and atom #turing machine #alan turing #computer science #ministero della cultura popolare #algorithms #teaching an old dog new tricks #b mashina

[ehj3]

MAN UNKIND

 “Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.” — José Ortega Y Gasset The question was once, “Are we animal or angel?” (or centaur) It was then secularized to ape or automaton. Then Freud answered, “Both!” His Id and Superego being the…

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#animal or angel #artificial intelligence #aura #automaton #chimpanzees #civilization #corporations #culture #freud #id #nature #ortega y gasset #pirandello #society #superego #turing machine #zoo

[zelihatrifles]

The Imitation Game

Misunderstood genius is a pretty well-worn trope you may say, but Alan Turing really was exceptional. Benedict Cumberbatch plays him with that precise arrogance of knowing that he is superior to the others, but also with that terrible loneliness that comes from being right all the time, and from a sexual orientation that is so illegal that the government nearly drove him to suicide with the unfair punishment. I should say spoiler alert perhaps, but more than suspense, this information serves to shock us that this pioneer who made modern computers possible was treated with such impunity during his own time. And also, don't stop yourself from feeling miserable about Christopher. So, do go and give it a watch!

#movies #cinema #films #the imitation game #benedict cucumber #morten tyldum #alan turing #turing machine #turing test #impressions not reviews

[implicitlysad]

This movie😭

#the imitation game #benedict cumberbatch #doctor strange #alan turing #turing machine #keira knightley

[sprinklecipher]

Happy anniversary to one of my all-time favorite YouTube videos, On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint!

It's about exactly what the title would suggest, so if it sounds interesting to you and you've got 5-ish minutes to spare, I'd definitely recommend giving it a watch.

Also, I've genuinely thought about the part at 1:49 at least once a week since first seeing it (years ago now). That is the exact kind of energy I try to bring into all of my wildly ill-advised personal projects :)

#YouTube #Video #Computer Science #PowerPoint #Programming #Turing Machine #sC original

[never-sated]

It's my wife's @books-beer-boardgames birthday so we're enjoying Hop Cakes season and Turing Machine!

She's a massive logic puzzle fan so this was a no brainer.

#Turing Machine #board games #Hop Cakes #NoDa Brewing Company

[tjeez]

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#collage #turing machine #mine art #retro #experimental #every time i post anything to ig i lose followers so i guess ill post to my 40 followers on tumby #*33 sorry

[alchemisoul]

Why do I suffer so?

That's a broad question. A vague question. But an ever-relevant question.

Have you brought it upon yourself or has it manifested upon you in an unsolicited and unwarranted manner? In my experience, it's been a mixture of both. Often the suffering we bring upon ourselves is the most unnecessary aside from that which we bring onto others which is the most regrettable.

Suffering is relative.

We should examine suffering in the same way we would differentiate between absolute and relative poverty. We should first consider the sort of suffering that those who, for example, were raised in the global north in the western hemisphere on either side of the Atlantic in the late 20th century - Present as compared to every other human who has ever existed before us or is currently living elsewhere and enduring different struggles. COVID was but a taste of the struggles others deal with every day, all the time. It cannot be understated how sheltered and spoiled we are compared to those who came before us and those whose location and experiences today are not that of our own. See the average lifespan expectancy of humans in 1900 compared to those in 1950, and again with those in Present-day in the United States alone for a bit of perspective.

Some suffering is a necessary and a part of life. Sometimes personal, self-inflicted, suffering makes us stronger and conditions us to bend but not break. Sometimes it's unnecessary and we suffer from things outside of our control at the hands of others. Sometimes that makes us stronger as well but the unnecessary and unwarranted suffering through abuse and violence brought onto ourselves and others by others, or that which we bring onto others, is the most intolerable and unforgivable. And this type of suffering is the kind that should keep us up at night.

The Black Mirror anthology (BBC/Netflix) does an amazing job of exploring the potential nightmares of what sort of suffering is possible via cloning and artificial intelligence in three episodes "White Christmas", "U.S.S Callister", and "Black Museum" (which I wouldn't recommend watching until you’ve watched all of the others). The social commentary and ethical questions posed in those episodes were sometimes overlooked or not always taken seriously as they should be. They are, again, ever-relevant. And I've thought about them quite a bit.

I bring this up to emphasize how the ability and capacity to experience suffering is arguably the most intuitive and compelling power we have for gaging what it is real. You may hear people say that time and space or our reality at large, for example, is an illusion - and you might even hear them expand on this with some salient points to demonstrate the soundness and deepness of these arguments. And maybe in some sense, these are true statements.

And yet there is nothing more real, no greater proof of reality, than the pain endured in the moment of suffering. Time is never more eternal than it is within the moment of suffering. And because anyone who has truly suffered, intuitively understands this to be true - we should give a bazillion fucks about the suffering of others and for the suffering of any and all sentient beings.

The Turing test is used to gage the capacity of a machine to exhibit equivalent to, or indistinguishable, intelligence of that of a human. "The Enduring Test", as I would have it, would measure a digital clone or replicants, capacity for suffering to an equal or indistinguishable extent as humans or biological lifeforms generally speaking.

At that point, we should give as many fucks about the suffering of artificial intelligence as we do for our own and should for that of others - the thought of crossing this technological Rubicon and for that possibility to be crystallized into reality should be absolutely terrifying to anyone with a pulse and a spine.

What good comes from, for what purpose is there, suffering? The only utility I can offer you is the idea that enduring suffering and seeking to avoid future suffering triggers what Colin Wilson refers to as "the peak experience". In these moments, we become most alive and are awoken out of the "robot" programming and cultural sedation that comes with a life where the core elements of survival are in many ways taken care of for us.

The generations preceding us had less and less time to suffer from the worries that plague us today. They had to find food, water, and shelter and avoid rival tribes and empires coming to sack their cities and forcing them to submit to worshiping a new God, renouncing their old ones, or be burned at a stake - or forcing them into slavery or killing the men and raping the women and eventually wiping them off the face of the earth. Conquests didn't begin with Colonialism. Colonialism was Conquests plus Ships. This happened everywhere. Our ancestors had different problems. At the very least, those individuals knew what it was to be fully alive at all times.

#suffering #just my thoughts #whatever i was feeling at the time #writing #turing test #the turing test #turing machine #enduring test #the enduring test #artificial intelligence #human rights #abuse #perspective #black mirror #ai #a.i #technology #dystopia

[ar31418]

Game of Life

Conway developed a Zero Player game, Game of life, which is a cellular automata. The zero player game implies that once started it does not need any other input to continue. It has been established that they are Turing Complete and hence can simulate any Turing machine. The challenge though is that we have to determine the starting pattern. The ability to introduce additional inputs during the course of execution can potentially change the outcomes. Now the interesting part, if we study the rules of Game of Life, they are extremely similar and mimic simple social behaviours. So does this mean, when we demonstrate simple social activities, we might be in effect implementing complex computational behaviours at a group level?

Martin Gardner’s Article: https://web.stanford.edu/class/sts145/Library/life.pdf

#cs #cellular automata #turing machine #computer science

[rastronomicals]

9:51 AM EDT April 1, 2024:

Turing Machine - "Synchronicity III" From the album Zwei (November 8, 2004)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Sequel Songs to those by The Police

#Turing Machine #Zwei #Synchronicity III