Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Paraphrase of Sipser's agreement

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Sujet : Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Paraphrase of Sipser's agreement
De : dbush.mobile (at) *nospam* gmail.com (dbush)
Groupes : comp.theory
Date : 16. Mar 2025, 16:32:23
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On 3/16/2025 11:05 AM, olcott wrote:
On 3/16/2025 7:31 AM, joes wrote:
Am Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:27:00 -0500 schrieb olcott:
On 3/15/2025 5:12 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-03-14 14:39:30 +0000, olcott said:
On 3/14/2025 4:03 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-03-13 20:56:22 +0000, olcott said:
On 3/13/2025 4:22 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-03-13 00:36:04 +0000, olcott said:
>
>
void DDD()
{
    HHH(DDD);
    return;
}
int DD()
{
    int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
    if (Halt_Status)
      HERE: goto HERE;
    return Halt_Status;
}
>
When HHH correctly emulates N steps of the above functions none of
them can possibly reach their own "return" instruction and
terminate normally.
>
Nevertheless, assuming HHH is a decider, Infinite_Loop and
Infinite_Recursion specify a non-terminating behaviour, DDD
specifies a terminating behaviour
>
What is the sequence of machine language instructions of DDD
emulated by HHH such that DDD reaches its machine address 00002183?
>
Irrelevant off-topic distraction.
>
Proving that you don't have a clue that Rice's Theorem is anchored in
the behavior that its finite string input specifies.
>
Another irrelevant off-topic distraction, this time involving a false
claim.
One can be a competent C programmer without knowing anyting about
Rice's Theorem.
YES.
>
Rice's Theorem is about semantic properties in general, not just
behaviours.
The unsolvability of the halting problem is just a special case.
>
Does THE INPUT TO simulating termination analyzer HHH encode a C
function that reaches its "return"
instruction [WHEN SIMULATED BY HHH] (The definition of simulating
termination analyzer) ???
 
That can't be right. Otherwise my simulator could just not simulate
at all and say that no input halts.
>
 Originally a "decider" was any TM that always stops
running for any reason.
 In computability theory, a decider is a Turing
machine that halts for every input.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decider_(Turing_machine)
 
<MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
</MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words 10/13/2022>
key word "correctly"
>
 *I anchored what correct emulation means now*
 <Accurate Paraphrase>
If emulating termination analyzer H emulates its input
finite string D of x86 machine language instructions
according to the semantics of the x86 programming language
until H correctly determines that this emulated D cannot
possibly reach its own "ret" instruction in any finite
number of correctly emulated steps then
 H can abort its emulation of input D and correctly report
that D specifies a non-halting sequence of configurations.
</Accurate Paraphrase>
 
Nope:
On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 2:41:27 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
 > Fritz Feldhase <franz.fri...@gmail.com> writes:
 >
 > > On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 3:56:52 AM UTC+1, olcott wrote:
 > >> On 3/5/2023 8:33 PM, Fritz Feldhase wrote:
 > >> > On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 3:30:38 AM UTC+1, olcott wrote:
 > >> > >
 > >> > > I needed Sipser for people [bla]
 > >> > >
 > >> > Does Sipser support your view/claim that you have refuted the halting theorem?
 > >> >
 > >> > Does he write/teach that the halting theorem is invalid?
 > >> >
 > >> > Tell us, oh genius!
 > >> >
 > >> Professor Sipser only agreed that [...]
 > >
 > > So the answer is no. Noted.
 > >
 > >> Because he has >250 students he did not have time to examine anything
 > >> else. [...]
 > >
 > > Oh, a CS professor does not have the time to check a refutation of the
 > > halting theorem. *lol*
 > I exchanged emails with him about this. He does not agree with anything
 > substantive that PO has written. I won't quote him, as I don't have
 > permission, but he was, let's say... forthright, in his reply to me.
 >
On 8/23/2024 5:07 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
 > joes <noreply@example.org> writes:
 >
 >> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:55:52 -0500 schrieb olcott:
 >
 >>> Professor Sipser clearly agreed that an H that does a finite simulation
 >>> of D is to predict the behavior of an unlimited simulation of D.
 >>
 >> If the simulator *itself* would not abort. The H called by D is,
 >> by construction, the same and *does* abort.
 >
 > We don't really know what context Sipser was given.  I got in touch at
 > the time so do I know he had enough context to know that PO's ideas were
 > "wacky" and that had agreed to what he considered a "minor remark".
 >
 > Since PO considers his words finely crafted and key to his so-called
 > work I think it's clear that Sipser did not take the "minor remark" he
 > agreed to to mean what PO takes it to mean!  My own take if that he
 > (Sipser) read it as a general remark about how to determine some cases,
 > i.e. that D names an input that H can partially simulate to determine
 > it's halting or otherwise.  We all know or could construct some such
 > cases.
 >
 > I suspect he was tricked because PO used H and D as the names without
 > making it clear that D was constructed from H in the usual way (Sipser
 > uses H and D in at least one of his proofs).  Of course, he is clued in
 > enough know that, if D is indeed constructed from H like that, the
 > "minor remark" becomes true by being a hypothetical: if the moon is made
 > of cheese, the Martians can look forward to a fine fondue.  But,
 > personally, I think the professor is more straight talking than that,
 > and he simply took as a method that can work for some inputs.  That's
 > the only way is could be seen as a "minor remark" with being accused of
 > being disingenuous.
On 8/23/2024 9:10 PM, Mike Terry wrote:
 > So that PO will have no cause to quote me as supporting his case:  what
 > Sipser understood he was agreeing to was NOT what PO interprets it as
 > meaning.  Sipser would not agree that the conclusion applies in PO's
 > HHH(DDD) scenario, where DDD halts.

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