• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    I thought machines were supposed to halt‽ All those lies in my curriculum!

    [Obscure fact: Turing never actually conceived his machines of ‘halting’. They were supposed to print the answer to their input problem by running indefinitely.]

  • wols@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    out of memory for the rest of this message (which included a full proof of Fermat’s last theorem)

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    2 years ago

    Haha I dunno why but this tickled me. Then I had to explain my outburst to the wife and the humour was lost.