Re: H(D,D) cannot even be asked about the behavior of D(D) V2

On 2024-06-16 17:26, Richard Damon wrote:

On 6/16/24 6:21 PM, Python wrote:

Le 16/06/2024 à 23:58, André G. Isaak a écrit :

On 2024-06-16 15:06, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
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If you'd've simply stuck to turing machines all along, you could have
avoided a lot of the confusion you've got yourself into.  Why not start
talking about turing machines now?

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Olcott has made it clear that he has absolutely no idea what Turing Machines are or how they work. He likes bringing them up (even insisting on calling his C programs "TMs" or "UTMs"), but there's no possibility that he will start discussing actual Turing machines. They're entirely outside of his purview.
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André
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A couple of years ago he was asked to provide Turing Machine emulator in
C. He bragged about delivering it in a few hours (which is realisting
for any decent programmer btw).
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Guess what? He failed.
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 Actually, if I remember right, he was asked to write a Turing Machine, and was shown an on-line Turing Emulator, but he didn't like how it worked, (it didn't understand a "full ASCII" tape) so he desided to write his own, and failed.

Yes. He was asked to produce a TM that decided parity. He decided he couldn't do this in the abstract and needed an emulator to test it in. But apparently learning the syntax of the input files used by existing emulators was more than he could cope with and he insisted it would be easier to write his own emulator.
Of course, this went nowhere, but it provided him with an excuse for not producing a parity decider.
André
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