Turing's Vision

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1. jdkeeDec 2019
   How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan.

   Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science, Chris Bernhardt.

   The Peripheral, William Gibson.

   Lila, Robert Pirsig. (re-read)

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2. fermienricoDec 2018
   When I think of a computer, the first thing that pops up in my mind is whether the Antikythera computer is Turing complete? The article makes no mention of this.

   To give it a title as the first computing device, I think there should be some analysis of operations that it can perform and whether they can constitute as a universal turing machine.

   Otherwise, we can call stones as computers. They can do addition and subtraction by the virtue of counting. I am not familiar with Turing's thesis on a theoretical basis (having only read the popular "Turing's Vision" by Chris Bernhardt), is it possible to determine turing completeness of this mechanism?

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