Hacker News with Generative AI: Turing Machines

A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas (theregister.com)
A working Turing Machine was this week submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.
Lego, Turing Machines, Hardware, Computer Science
25 points by cassianoleal 59 days ago | 2 comments
A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas (theregister.com)
A working Turing Machine was this week submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.
Lego, Hardware, Turing Machines, Computer Science
109 points by mdp2021 60 days ago | 26 comments
Working Turing Machine (lego.com)
What is a Turing machine?Depending on who you ask, it's either an abstract model of an algorithmic machine or an esoteric programming language. It's named after its creator, Alan Turing– an English cryptologist.
Computer Science, Programming Languages, Turing Machines
257 points by ludovicianul 71 days ago | 32 comments
One Collatz Coincidence (sligocki.com)
… or perhaps I should say Collatz-like trajectory. Because fellow Discord user Racheline discovered on 4 Sep 2024 (Discord) that they are both effectively simulating the same Collatz-like trajectory! In fact, this Collatz-like trajectory appears to be ubiquitous among Turing machines around this size.
Mathematics, Computer Science, Turing Machines
78 points by 7373737373 74 days ago | 24 comments
Rosser's Theorem via Turing Machines (2011) (scottaaronson.blog)
Computer Science, Logic, Turing Machines
67 points by dargscisyhp 167 days ago | 9 comments