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Cliff Wells
LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 31 19:42:44 EST 2002
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 14:17, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Cliff Wells fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 30 December 2002
> 09:25 pm:
>
> > based on preconceptions. Consider a "programmable" toy that was
> > popular
> > several years ago. You could specify, by using a numeric keypad on
> > it,
> > how far it should go in a given direction and various other things.
> > It certainly wasn't Turing-complete and yet it was certainly a
> > "program"
> > entered onto its keypad. If you claim that the what was entered on
>
> Ah, but with enough memory, and assuming some sort of external sensor,
> one could maybe turn that toy into a R/W head for a physical Turing
> machine <G>
>
> (Now there is something to be afraid of... Some toddler using a long
> line of wood blocks as the "bits" of Turing machine with a Lego
> Mindstorms robot, prebuilt of course, as the R/W head)
Or it could launch the wooden blocks like missiles! Cool!
Making-vroom-vroom-noises'ly yrs,
--
Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
(503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308
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