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| Subject | Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? |
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| From | Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> |
| Message-ID | <ZoEbR.400753$rbZb.249874@fx17.iad> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2026-01-20 00:29 -0500 |
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On 1/18/26 11:30 PM, dart200 wrote: > On 1/18/26 4:28 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 1/18/26 6:01 PM, dart200 wrote: >>> On 1/18/26 2:27 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote: >>>> On 18/01/2026 21:50, dart200 wrote: >>>>> well it was developed to be a general theory of computing, and >>>>> apparently modern computing has transcended that theory >>>> >>>> In what ways is that apparent to you? >>> >>> modern computing utilized context-dependent functions, whereas turing >>> machine computations cannot be context-dependent. >>> >>> like a simple total stack trace cannot be generally implemented for >>> turing machines cause the top level runtime cannot be deduced by the >>> computation. there's no mechanism to do that. >>> >>>> >>>> Note "computing (the field, today)" does not refer to exactly the same >>>> relata as "computation" or "computing (the activity, then)". >>>> >>>> computing to >>>> >>> >>> >> >> Since Turing Machines don't HAVE a stack, that is just a red herring. > > it's amazing how retared one can be even when technically correct And how stupid you are by showing you are just incorrect. > >> >> And yes, there IS a mechanism, if the sub part needs to know that to >> do its computation, then you pass that as part of its input or state. >> >> It just means you need to be EXPLICIT about what you are doing. >> >> Explicit helps us know exactly what is happening. > > that's a design choice, sure One that helps with being correct. > >> >> Most subroutines shouldn't care about their caller, and if they do, it >> should be explicit. > > but if want to care generally, i can't do that because turing machines > don't have the mechanisms in place to ensure i have theoretically robust > access to whatever would be the stack trace equivalent > That is the problem, there ISN'T an equivalent. Since code reuse is done by code dupication, the current state shows the eqivalent of the stack trace, as each "parent" call to a given "function" creates its own copy of that function. Since computabiliry isn't about efficency or resource usage, the duplication isn't a problem.
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Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2026-01-24 17:06 -0600
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-24 19:52 -0500
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-01-24 18:05 -0800
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-25 13:23 -0500
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-01-25 13:04 -0800
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2026-01-25 17:40 -0500
Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? PLO dart200 <user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-01-25 22:50 -0800
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