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4 Sep 2024 07:19:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A turing machine  
From: Invisible
Date: 29 Mar 2010 04:46:32
Message: <4bb068e8$1@news.povray.org>
>> Deeply awesome? Not really, no. 
> 
> I thought it was awesome that it actually reads the tape with a camera 
> instead of cheating and storing anything in actual memory, for one.

Well, if that's the case it's fairly awesome, but since you can't tell 
that by looking at it...

>> It operates far, far too slowly to watch it do anything useful.
> 
> I think "TM" and "useful" aren't really intended to go together.

OK, how about "interesting" then?

...actually, perhaps not.

>> It's completely opaque why it writes the symbol it does. 
> 
> I think the LCD display he isn't showing you in the videos covers that.

I'd prefer something more obviously visual, but may.

If there's one thing that *is* cool, it's that the eraser thingy 
actually works...


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