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Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?

Started byMild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
First post2025-11-30 13:38 +0100
Last post2025-12-04 12:59 +0800
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  Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ? Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 13:38 +0100
    An old Busy Beaver ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 13:54 +0100
    An old Busy Beaver ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 13:55 +0100
      What is analog computing nowadays? (Re: An old Busy Beaver ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 11:25 +0100
        Wake-up call until everybody gets ear-bleeding (Re: What is analog computing nowadays?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 12:01 +0100
          BB(745) is independent of ZFC (Was: Wake-up call until everybody gets ear-bleeding) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 12:07 +0100
            Write ZFC formulas on a tape (of a Turing machine) (Re: BB(745) is independent of ZFC ) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 17:18 +0100
              Turing machines have neurons (Re: Write ZFC formulas on a tape (of a Turing machine)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 17:19 +0100
                A logical calculus in nervous activity [McCulloch & Pitts 1943] (Re: Turing machines have neurons) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 17:20 +0100
                  Busy Beaver and Theory Consistency (Was: A logical calculus in nervous activity [McCulloch & Pitts 1943]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 17:39 +0100
                  Busy Beaver and Theory Consistency (Was: A logical calculus in nervous activity [McCulloch & Pitts 1943]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 17:43 +0100
                    Re: Busy Beaver and Theory Consistency (Was: A logical calculus in nervous activity [McCulloch & Pitts 1943]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 23:18 +0100
        Re: What is analog computing nowadays? (Re: An old Busy Beaver ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-01 12:09 +0100
          parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 12:15 +0100
            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-01 13:23 +0100
              Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction (Was: parallel random-access machine) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 17:12 +0100
                Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD (Niu et al., 2011) (Was: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 17:31 +0100
                  PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc.. (Was: Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 18:02 +0100
                Re: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction (Was: parallel random-access machine) Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-01 17:59 +0100
                  PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc.. (Re: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 18:05 +0100
                  PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc.. (Re: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 18:08 +0100
                    Physics more difficult than Rasperry LED cube? (Was: PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc..) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 18:25 +0100
              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-03 07:17 +0100
                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is  analog computing nowadays?) Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2025-12-03 06:46 +0000
                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-03 08:02 +0100
                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-04 07:50 +0100
                    Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-04 09:57 +0100
                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Telly Missiakos <siy@ioet.gr> - 2025-12-05 14:26 +0000
                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-06 17:02 +0100
                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-07 10:22 +0100
                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-07 10:39 +0100
                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-07 10:46 +0100
                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-07 11:42 +0100
                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-12-07 16:26 +0200
                            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-08 04:25 +0100
                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-08 08:51 +0100
                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-12-08 13:58 +0200
                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-09 09:15 +0100
                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-08 08:21 +0100
                            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-12-08 09:06 +0100
                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-09 09:19 +0100
                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-09 11:43 -0800
                                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-10 08:19 +0100
                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-10 09:56 +0100
                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-10 10:01 -0800
                                    Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-11 09:02 +0100
                                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-11 08:48 -0800
                                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-12 01:58 +0100
                                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-11 20:45 -0800
                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-11 23:07 -0800
                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-12 00:49 -0800
                                            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-14 14:27 +0100
                                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Yunior Molokanov <ukan@amuyao.ru> - 2025-12-14 17:18 +0000
                                                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-14 10:03 -0800
                                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Salvado Gorbikov <abdrvvg@lgadi.ru> - 2025-12-15 22:01 +0000
                                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 10:25 -0800
                                                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-14 21:22 +0100
                                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 12:52 -0800
                                                  I have a great idea The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 13:11 -0800
                                                  Einstein refrigerator (was: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-15 03:00 +0100
                                                    Re: Einstein refrigerator (was: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 19:46 -0800
                                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 10:27 -0800
                                                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-14 10:58 -0800
                                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-15 07:50 +0100
                                                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-15 14:05 +0100
                                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-16 08:44 +0100
                                                    Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-16 22:58 +0100
                                                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-17 08:50 +0100
                                                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-17 14:00 +0100
                                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Lemuel Agababov <uamv@oaabao.ru> - 2025-12-17 16:58 +0000
                                                            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-17 18:33 +0100
                                                              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Eniel Habalov <ia@anael.ru> - 2025-12-18 16:22 +0000
                                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-17 10:49 -0800
                                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-17 11:23 -0800
                                                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2025-12-17 14:24 +0100
                                                        Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-18 22:13 -0800
                                                          Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-19 12:02 -0800
                                                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Lynn Dobronos <rlbs@ddn.ru> - 2025-12-17 16:51 +0000
                                                      Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-17 18:24 +0100
                                  Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-18 06:49 +0000
                    Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-06 05:30 +0100
            Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Pascual Sokolsky <aoa@ssppsc.pl> - 2025-12-01 19:58 +0000
              Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 21:17 +0100
                Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?) Blending Molostvov <noo@biiooe.ru> - 2025-12-01 20:44 +0000
                  Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD (Niu et al., 2011) (Re: parallel random-access machine) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 22:06 +0100
                    Linux kernel's RCU-protected hash tables (Re: Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD (Niu et al., 2011)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 22:26 +0100
                      String interning is HashSet and not HashMap (Was: Linux kernel's RCU-protected hash tables) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 22:40 +0100
                    Re: Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD (Niu et al., 2011) (Re: parallel random-access machine) Bosephis Otlesnov <ooiv@th.ru> - 2025-12-01 21:42 +0000
                      POINT OF VIEW OF AN ALGORITHM (Re: Algorithm introduced in Hogwild! SGD (Niu et al., 2011)) (Re: parallel random-access machine) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 23:12 +0100
                        Introduction to AMBA® 4 ACE™ (2011) (Was: POINT OF VIEW OF AN ALGORITHM) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 23:37 +0100
                          Sputnik Schock: Academia is Disposable [I. J. Good Ultraintelligence] (Was: Introduction to AMBA® 4 ACE™ (2011)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 23:53 +0100
                          Re: Introduction to AMBA® 4 ACE™ (2011) (Was: POINT OF VIEW OF AN ALGORITHM) Josbanne Balagula <ajbn@oll.ru> - 2025-12-01 23:06 +0000
                            Re: Introduction to AMBA® 4 ACE™ (2011) (Was: POINT OF VIEW OF AN ALGORITHM) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 00:08 +0100
    Re: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-11-30 14:06 +0100
      Re: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ? Dong Shamahov <hhh@dvgshv.ru> - 2025-11-30 15:46 +0000
      You shouldn't use NPM hacked services (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 22:27 +0100
        Its a subconscious hypothesis (Was: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 22:33 +0100
          What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? (Was: Its a subconscious hypothesis) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-11-30 22:43 +0100
            Re: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? (Was: Its a subconscious hypothesis) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-01 23:43 +0100
            Re: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-01 23:45 +0100
              newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 00:00 +0100
                Re: newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the  cosmos does a BB dance?) Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2025-12-02 03:10 +0000
                  Re: newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 11:51 +0100
                    Re: newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-02 20:36 +0100
                  Re: newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance?) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-01 21:42 -0800
                    Orbits of planets in the Sol System (was: newsreader where you can see the message source) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-04 03:29 +0100
                    Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-04 03:30 +0100
                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 14:56 -0800
                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 15:22 -0800
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-06 15:00 -0800
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-07 10:57 +0100
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-07 11:03 +0100
                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-07 16:17 +0100
                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 17:59 -0800
                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 18:07 -0800
                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-07 18:16 -0800
                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-07 21:39 -0800
                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-08 12:14 -0800
                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 12:41 -0800
                                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 13:11 -0800
                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 04:49 +0100
                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-08 17:33 +0100
                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-08 18:39 +0100
                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 12:29 -0800
                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 04:41 +0100
                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 21:41 -0800
                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-09 11:56 -0800
                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-09 12:15 -0800
                                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 23:35 +0100
                                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-10 02:17 -0800
                                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-10 12:01 -0800
                                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-10 13:25 -0800
                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 05:45 +0100
                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 05:47 +0100
                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-12-09 06:47 +0100
                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-09 11:50 -0800
                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 23:47 +0100
                                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-10 02:01 -0800
                                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-11 03:20 +0100
                                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-11 10:29 -0800
                                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-12 09:04 +0100
                                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-12 01:20 -0800
                                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-12 10:20 -0800
                                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-13 17:46 +0100
                                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-13 11:44 -0800
                                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-13 23:26 +0100
                                                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-13 15:28 -0800
                                                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-15 03:52 +0100
                                                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-14 22:35 -0800
                                                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-14 22:45 -0800
                                                              Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-17 18:52 +0100
                                                                Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-17 17:39 -0800
                                                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-18 04:23 +0100
                                                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-18 02:29 -0800
                                                            Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-14 23:01 -0800
                                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-13 23:27 +0100
                                  Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Jonas Zhashkov <snos@kook.ru> - 2025-12-09 19:35 +0000
                                    Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-09 23:44 +0100
                                      Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System "D.J. Papadopulos" <sn@sppodd.gr> - 2025-12-10 15:34 +0000
                                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-11 03:29 +0100
                                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System Erwin Shimanouchi <sicor@rinn.jp> - 2025-12-11 21:04 +0000
                        Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-06 14:57 -0800
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-07 12:36 -0800
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-07 12:36 -0800
                          Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-07 12:42 -0800
                Re: newsreader where you can see the message source (Was: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-02 20:35 +0100
                  Spock thinks I am interested in his gibberish (Re: newsreader where you can see the message source) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 23:22 +0100
                    Is it like "Wirres Mückengelaber" ? (Was: Spock thinks I am interested in his gibberish) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 23:28 +0100
              Re: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-03 07:22 +0100
                Re: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-12-03 08:27 -0800
                  Re: What if of the cosmos does a BB dance? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-12-04 07:57 +0100
          Re: Its a subconscious hypothesis (Was: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services) Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2025-11-30 23:14 +0100
        Re: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Sebastian Zolotdinov <eso@iz.ru> - 2025-11-30 23:42 +0000
          Putin payed trolls are usually name shifters [ethernal september morons] (Was: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-01 11:19 +0100
        Re: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-01 23:23 +0100
          Re: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services (Was: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 00:05 +0100
            Re: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2025-12-02 20:29 +0100
              Spock thinks I am interested in his gibberish (Re: You shouldn't use NPM hacked services) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 23:25 +0100
                Is it like "Wirres Mückengelaber" ? (Was: Spock thinks I am interested in his gibberish) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-02 23:29 +0100
      What Spock aka Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn missed (Was: Different Hubble Theories: de Sitter Energy) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-03 01:09 +0100
    The size of a Gödel sentence G (Re: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-03 09:00 +0100
    The size of a Gödel sentence G (Re: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-03 09:00 +0100
      Attacking the Busy Beaver 5 [1989] (Re: The size of a Gödel sentence G) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-12-03 09:10 +0100
    Re: Could AlphaEvolve find the sixth busy beaver ? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2025-12-04 12:59 +0800

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#667622 — PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc.. (Re: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction)

FromMild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Date2025-12-01 18:08 +0100
SubjectPRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc.. (Re: Nope, you can't, because of the CRCW instuction)
Message-ID<10gki26$vgqb$1@solani.org>
In reply to#667619
Hi,

The bottom line is often, PRAMs might be
closer to physics. Especially for certain
machine learning algorithms or questions

from modelling perception or action. You
might get better results if you model the
problem in terms of Boltzman machines,

or whatever from the arsenal of physics.

Bye

P.S.: Whats was a little popular for a certain
moment of time, was also the idea of partical
swarm optimization, for machine learning or

for problem solving:

Particle swarm optimization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization

Not sure how much of it got supperseeded,
it mostlikey survides in AlphaEvolve by Google,
looks like a genetic algorithm thing, which

is another name for this "physics".

Maciej Woźniak schrieb:
> On 12/1/2025 5:12 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Simulation is not so easy. 
> 
> I've never said it is easy. Some randomness
> or pseudorandomness existed for a long time,
> it's not enough for me to speak about a
> different architecture.
> 

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#667623 — Physics more difficult than Rasperry LED cube? (Was: PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc..)

FromMild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Date2025-12-01 18:25 +0100
SubjectPhysics more difficult than Rasperry LED cube? (Was: PRAMs might be closer to physics: Boltzman machines, etc..)
Message-ID<10gkj2a$vhp4$1@solani.org>
In reply to#667622
Hi,

But the topic of physics could be much more
difficult to discuss, then the topic of von
Neumann machines, like building your obligatory

hobby LED cube with a Rasperry Pi von Neuman
style with one thread. So I basically intend not
to respond anymore, to this silly thread, since

I was flamed for these things being off topic to
physics. Already just few months ago these
AI pioneers got physics nobel prices:

Why did they get Physics Nobel prices?

John J. Hopfield
Geoffrey Hinton
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/

They both worked in neural networks:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded
jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
"for foundational discoveries and inventions
that enable machine learning with artificial
neural networks"

Bye

P.S.: Not to mention from Google DeepMind:

Demis Hassabis
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/

Its also a premier of artificial intelligence nobel:

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI
model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting
proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries
hold enormous potential.

Mild Shock schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> The bottom line is often, PRAMs might be
> closer to physics. Especially for certain
> machine learning algorithms or questions
> 
> from modelling perception or action. You
> might get better results if you model the
> problem in terms of Boltzman machines,
> 
> or whatever from the arsenal of physics.
> 
> Bye
> 
> P.S.: Whats was a little popular for a certain
> moment of time, was also the idea of partical
> swarm optimization, for machine learning or
> 
> for problem solving:
> 
> Particle swarm optimization
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization
> 
> Not sure how much of it got supperseeded,
> it mostlikey survides in AlphaEvolve by Google,
> looks like a genetic algorithm thing, which
> 
> is another name for this "physics".
> 
> Maciej Woźniak schrieb:
>> On 12/1/2025 5:12 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Simulation is not so easy. 
>>
>> I've never said it is easy. Some randomness
>> or pseudorandomness existed for a long time,
>> it's not enough for me to speak about a
>> different architecture.
>>
> 

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#667666 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?)

FromThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Date2025-12-03 07:17 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?)
Message-ID<mpa2k1FhnntU4@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#667616
Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
> On 12/1/2025 12:15 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>  > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>  > more layer on top of it.
>>
>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>> not von Neuman architecture. 
> 
> We can use von Neumann architecture
> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
> is performed by our computers it is technically
> von Neumann's.
> 
Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture' was actually invented and 
patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the early 1930th?

The liberators stole it from Zuse (like zillions of other patents from 
other German inventors).

TH

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#667668 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?)

FromPython <python@cccp.invalid>
Date2025-12-03 06:46 +0000
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM (Was: What is analog computing nowadays?)
Message-ID<BqD5mSex_IIvGNMFDdn3zINsmkE@jntp>
In reply to#667666
Le 03/12/2025 à 07:11, Thomas Heger a écrit :
> Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
>> On 12/1/2025 12:15 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You wrote:
>>>
>>>  > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>>  > more layer on top of it.
>>>
>>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>>> not von Neuman architecture. 
>> 
>> We can use von Neumann architecture
>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
>> is performed by our computers it is technically
>> von Neumann's.
>> 
> Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture' was actually invented and 
> patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the early 1930th?
> 
> The liberators stole it from Zuse (like zillions of other patents from 
> other German inventors).

In this specific case: this is completely WRONG.

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#667669 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2025-12-03 08:02 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10gon9o$2jg1p$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>
In reply to#667666
Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
>> On 12/1/2025 12:15 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>> You wrote:
>>>
>>>  > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>>  > more layer on top of it.
>>>
>>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>>> not von Neuman architecture. 
>>
>> We can use von Neumann architecture
>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
>> is performed by our computers it is technically
>> von Neumann's.
>>
> Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture'

It really is spelled _von Neumann_, named after the Hungarian-American
polymath John von Neumann.  He was born (as Neumann János Lajos) into a
non-observant Jewish family, and raised, in Budapest, then in the Empire of
Austria-Hungary.  His family name may be of German origin.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Life_and_education>

> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the early
> 1930th?

NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. Presper
Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Computer_science>

ENIAC (completed in 1945) and EDVAC (completed in 1949, in operation from
1951 to 1962) were "programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital
computers".  They were NOT based on or copies of the Z series of computers
as invented and built by Konrad Zuse; the first computer of that series that
was fully digital was the Z5, ordered in 1950 and delivered in 1953:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5_(computer)>

> The liberators stole it from Zuse (like zillions of other patents from 
> other German inventors).

Cite evidence.

F'up2 comp.lang.misc

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#667682 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Date2025-12-04 07:50 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<mpcoupF147lU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#667669
Am Mittwoch000003, 03.12.2025 um 08:02 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
> Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
>>> On 12/1/2025 12:15 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>>> You wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>>>   > more layer on top of it.
>>>>
>>>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>>>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>>>> not von Neuman architecture.
>>>
>>> We can use von Neumann architecture
>>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
>>> is performed by our computers it is technically
>>> von Neumann's.
>>>
>> Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture'
> 
> It really is spelled _von Neumann_, named after the Hungarian-American
> polymath John von Neumann.  He was born (as Neumann János Lajos) into a
> non-observant Jewish family, and raised, in Budapest, then in the Empire of
> Austria-Hungary.  His family name may be of German origin.
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Life_and_education>
> 
>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the early
>> 1930th?
> 
> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. Presper
> Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC."


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3

Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?



> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Computer_science>
> 
> ENIAC (completed in 1945) and EDVAC (completed in 1949, in operation from
> 1951 to 1962) were "programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital
> computers".  They were NOT based on or copies of the Z series of computers
> as invented and built by Konrad Zuse; the first computer of that series that
> was fully digital was the Z5, ordered in 1950 and delivered in 1953:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5_(computer)>
> 
>> The liberators stole it from Zuse (like zillions of other patents from
>> other German inventors).
> 

'Operation paperclip' was actually a systematical manhunt by US forces 
for German scientists.

Also the patens were plundered, especially those from single inventors 
like Zuse.

The US tropps actually invaded eastern Germany prior to Soviet troops, 
because they wanted to get hold of scientists from Ohrdruf in Thuringia.

TH

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#667684 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromJanis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Date2025-12-04 09:57 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10gridl$2f6kr$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#667682
On 2025-12-04 07:50, Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch000003, 03.12.2025 um 08:02 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>> Thomas Heger wrote:
>>> Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
>>>> On 12/1/2025 12:15 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>>>> You wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>>>>   > more layer on top of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>>>>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>>>>> not von Neuman architecture.
>>>>
>>>> We can use von Neumann architecture
>>>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
>>>> is performed by our computers it is technically
>>>> von Neumann's.
>>>>
>>> Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture'
>>
>> It really is spelled _von Neumann_, named after the Hungarian-American
>> polymath John von Neumann.  He was born (as Neumann János Lajos) into a
>> non-observant Jewish family, and raised, in Budapest, then in the 
>> Empire of
>> Austria-Hungary.  His family name may be of German origin.
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Life_and_education>
>>
>>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the 
>>> early
>>> 1930th?
>>
>> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. 
>> Presper
>> Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC."
> 
> 
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
> 
> Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?

That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.

While concepts of modern computers where already exiting in Z1
the first reliably running computer system was the Z3, AFAIK.
Yes, before the ENIAC. And the plans for the Z3 were of course
designed before their initial operation in 1941, and based on
concepts also of its predecessors.

But yes, history was widely misrepresented and ignoring those!
This is an effect you can observe also in other technical areas.

> 
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Computer_science>
>>
>> ENIAC (completed in 1945) and EDVAC (completed in 1949, in operation from
>> 1951 to 1962) were "programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital
>> computers".  They were NOT based on or copies of the Z series of 
>> computers
>> as invented and built by Konrad Zuse; the first computer of that 
>> series that
>> was fully digital was the Z5, ordered in 1950 and delivered in 1953:

I think that statement with the somewhat fuzzy term "fully digital"
and its attribution to the Z5 (and not before) is not correct.

The point is that the first computers had slight variances in their
concepts, and if one wants to claim being the first all he has to
do is defining the own variances as the characteristic properties
of "a real [first] computer".

To me it's quite obvious that the Z3 was the first running computer
with binary logic and programmable.

But given the severe nationalistic/patriotic struggles and battles
who was the first who invented whatever important was invented will
make discussions here fruitless. The facts (dates and features, and
even construction plans) can be found online, and instead of hitting
each others' heads with fitting "definitions" to justify one or the
other position (which is doomed to fail) people can read the sources
and judge themselves; there's a lot of substantial/reliable material
available.

>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5_(computer)>
>>
>>> The liberators stole it from Zuse (like zillions of other patents from
>>> other German inventors).
>>
> 
> 'Operation paperclip' was actually a systematical manhunt by US forces 
> for German scientists.
> 
> Also the patens were plundered, especially those from single inventors 
> like Zuse.
> 
> The US tropps actually invaded eastern Germany prior to Soviet troops, 
> because they wanted to get hold of scientists from Ohrdruf in Thuringia.
> 
> TH
> 

(I wonder whether any of above newsgroups is relevant for that topic.)

Janis

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#667688 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromTelly Missiakos <siy@ioet.gr>
Date2025-12-05 14:26 +0000
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10guq1s$1eitc$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#667684
Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> On 2025-12-04 07:50, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> 'Operation paperclip' was actually a systematical manhunt by US forces
>> for German scientists.
>> 
>> Also the patens were plundered, especially those from single inventors
>> like Zuse.
>> 
>> The US tropps actually invaded eastern Germany prior to Soviet troops,
>> because they wanted to get hold of scientists from Ohrdruf in
>> Thuringia.
>> 
>> TH
>> 
>> 
> (I wonder whether any of above newsgroups is relevant for that topic.)
> 
> Janis

it is, as the history you send people to read, is most probably very fake.

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#667692 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2025-12-06 17:02 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h1k31$108a$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>
In reply to#667684
Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 2025-12-04 07:50, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch000003, 03.12.2025 um 08:02 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>>> Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>> Did you know, that 'von [Neumann] architecture'
>>> [...]
>>>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the 
>>>> early 1930th?
>>>
>>> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. 
>>> Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor,
>>> EDVAC."
>>>
>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
>>
>> Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?
> 
> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.

Twice wrong (according to the Wikipedia articles about them).

> While concepts of modern computers where already exiting in Z1
> the first reliably running computer system was the Z3, AFAIK.

It was a *digital* computer, but NOT the first *electronic* computer.

> Yes, before the ENIAC.

The ENIAC (completed in 1945) was (arguably) the first digital *electronic*
computer:

* Z1 (1936-1938):
  "motor-driven mechanical computer"
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)>

* Z2 (1940):
  "electromechanical (mechanical and relay-based) digital computer"
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2_(computer)>

* Z3 (1938-1941):
  "electromechanical computer [...] the world's first working programmable,
   fully automatic digital computer"
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)>

* Z4 (1942):
  "arguably the world's first commercial digital computer [...] Like the
  earlier Z2, it comprised a combination of mechanical memory and
  electromechanical logic."
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4_(computer)>

* ENIAC (1945):
  "first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer"
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC>

* EDVAC (1946-1952):
  "one of the earliest electronic computers [...] binary rather than
  decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer".
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC>

* Z5 (1950-1953):
  "the first commercial built-to-order mainframe in Germany"
  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5_(computer)>

> And the plans for the Z3 were of course designed before their initial operation in 1941, and based on
> concepts also of its predecessors.
> 
> But yes, history was widely misrepresented and ignoring those!

Nonsense.

> [conspiracy theories/historical inaccuracies]
>
> (I wonder whether any of above newsgroups is relevant for that topic.)

At most comp.lang.misc is regarding the computer-scientific part; but
Thomas Heger keeps ignoring the Followup-To that I set, and keeps
crossposting without Followup-To themselves.  You are doing the latter,
too.

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

F'up2 comp.lang.misc again

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#667698 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Date2025-12-07 10:22 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<mpkutsFcrt0U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#667684
Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
  >>>
>>>>>>   > No, they don't, they just add one (or some)
>>>>>>   > more layer on top of it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Techically they are not von Neuman architecture.
>>>>>> Unified Memory with Multiple Tensor Cores is
>>>>>> not von Neuman architecture.
>>>>>
>>>>> We can use von Neumann architecture
>>>>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it
>>>>> is performed by our computers it is technically
>>>>> von Neumann's.
>>>>>
>>>> Did you know, that 'von Neuman architecture'
>>>
>>> It really is spelled _von Neumann_, named after the Hungarian-American
>>> polymath John von Neumann.  He was born (as Neumann János Lajos) into a
>>> non-observant Jewish family, and raised, in Budapest, then in the 
>>> Empire of
>>> Austria-Hungary.  His family name may be of German origin.
>>>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Life_and_education>
>>>
>>>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the 
>>>> early
>>>> 1930th?
>>>
>>> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. 
>>> Presper
>>> Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC."
>>
>>
>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
>>
>> Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?
> 
> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.


Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
actually the Z1 of 1937.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von-Neumann-Architektur
quote

"
Viele Ideen der Von-Neumann-Architektur waren schon 1936 von Konrad Zuse 
ausgearbeitet, in zwei Patentschriften 1937 dokumentiert und 
größtenteils bereits 1938 in der Z1-Maschine mechanisch realisiert 
worden. 1941 baute Konrad Zuse in Zusammenarbeit mit Helmut Schreyer mit 
der Zuse Z3 den ersten funktionsfähigen Digitalrechner der Welt. Es gilt 
aber als unwahrscheinlich, dass von Neumann die Arbeiten Zuses kannte, 
als er 1945 seine Architektur vorstellte. "

translated by google
"Many ideas of von Neumann's architecture had already been developed by 
Konrad Zuse in 1936, documented in two patents in 1937, and largely 
implemented mechanically in the Z1 machine by 1938. In 1941, Konrad 
Zuse, in collaboration with Helmut Schreyer, built the Zuse Z3, the 
world's first functional digital computer. However, it is considered 
unlikely that von Neumann was aware of Zuse's work when he presented his 
architecture in 1945."

BUT: nobody gives a shit, whether or not someone knows about proir 
rights (or not).

It is patently irrelevant, whether von Neumann knew the patents of Zuse 
(or not).

Therefore the patents of Zuse were simply stolen and also the invention 
itself ascribed to somebody else


> While concepts of modern computers where already exiting in Z1
> the first reliably running computer system was the Z3, AFAIK.
> Yes, before the ENIAC. And the plans for the Z3 were of course
> designed before their initial operation in 1941, and based on
> concepts also of its predecessors.
> 
> But yes, history was widely misrepresented and ignoring those!
> This is an effect you can observe also in other technical areas.
> 

But theft is still theft, even if it is for the sake of national pride.

...

TH

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#667699 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2025-12-07 10:39 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h3i14$78fj$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>
In reply to#667698
Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your newsreader is still broken/misconfigured.  How is it possible that you
have *still* not noticed yet that it produces broken attribution lines like
these?  (The fact aside that most of the information there is superfluous.)

Maybe you should focus more on *your* output instead :->

>>>>> Did you know, that 'von [Neumann] architecture'
>>>> [...]
>>>>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the 
>>>>> early 1930th?
>>>>
>>>> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. 
>>>> Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor,
>>>> EDVAC."
>>>
>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
>>>
>>> Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?
>>
>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
> 
> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
> actually the Z1 of 1937.

Irrelevant (regarding to your original argument):

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von-Neumann-Architektur
> quote
> 
> "
> Viele Ideen der Von-Neumann-Architektur waren schon 1936 von Konrad Zuse 
> ausgearbeitet, in zwei Patentschriften 1937 dokumentiert und 
> größtenteils bereits 1938 in der Z1-Maschine mechanisch realisiert 
> worden. 1941 baute Konrad Zuse in Zusammenarbeit mit Helmut Schreyer mit 
> der Zuse Z3 den ersten funktionsfähigen Digitalrechner der Welt. Es gilt 
> aber als unwahrscheinlich, dass von Neumann die Arbeiten Zuses kannte, 
> als er 1945 seine Architektur vorstellte. "
> 
> translated by google
> "Many ideas of von Neumann's architecture had already been developed by 
> Konrad Zuse in 1936, documented in two patents in 1937, and largely 
> implemented mechanically in the Z1 machine by 1938. In 1941, Konrad 
> Zuse, in collaboration with Helmut Schreyer, built the Zuse Z3, the 
> world's first functional digital computer. However, it is considered 
> unlikely that von Neumann was aware of Zuse's work when he presented his 
> architecture in 1945."
> 
> BUT: nobody gives a shit, whether or not someone knows about proir 
> rights (or not).

It is clear that *you* don't "give a shit" because this additional
information completely destroys your argument.  However, that is a fallacy.

> It is patently irrelevant, whether von Neumann knew the patents of Zuse 
> (or not).

No, that is actually the core issue here.

> But theft is still theft, even if it is for the sake of national pride.

There was no theft.  You are delusional.

F'up2 comp.lang.misc again

(With your newsreader [Thunderbird], you have to *manually* *add* back* the
original groups in order to keep crossposting without Followup-To.  So this
is not or a newsreader bug, but *malice* on your part, perhaps out of
delusions of grandeur.  JFYI: Your postings are *NOT* *that* *important*
that you have to blast them to 3 newsgroups *continuously*, only one of
which has to do with the topic of the discussion.)

-- 
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Twitter: @PointedEars2
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#667700 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2025-12-07 10:46 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h3idv$78p2$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>
In reply to#667698
Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your newsreader is still broken/misconfigured.  How is it possible that you
have *still* not noticed yet that it produces broken attribution lines like
these?  (The fact aside that most of the information there is superfluous.)

Maybe you should focus more on *your* output instead :->

>>>>> Did you know, that 'von [Neumann] architecture'
>>>> [...]
>>>>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the 
>>>>> early 1930th?
>>>>
>>>> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. 
>>>> Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor,
>>>> EDVAC."
>>>
>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
>>>
>>> Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?
>>
>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
> 
> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
> actually the Z1 of 1937.

Irrelevant (regarding to your original argument):

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von-Neumann-Architektur
> quote
> 
> "
> Viele Ideen der Von-Neumann-Architektur waren schon 1936 von Konrad Zuse 
> ausgearbeitet, in zwei Patentschriften 1937 dokumentiert und 
> größtenteils bereits 1938 in der Z1-Maschine mechanisch realisiert 
> worden. 1941 baute Konrad Zuse in Zusammenarbeit mit Helmut Schreyer mit 
> der Zuse Z3 den ersten funktionsfähigen Digitalrechner der Welt. Es gilt 
> aber als unwahrscheinlich, dass von Neumann die Arbeiten Zuses kannte, 
> als er 1945 seine Architektur vorstellte. "
> 
> translated by google
> "Many ideas of von Neumann's architecture had already been developed by 
> Konrad Zuse in 1936, documented in two patents in 1937, and largely 
> implemented mechanically in the Z1 machine by 1938. In 1941, Konrad 
> Zuse, in collaboration with Helmut Schreyer, built the Zuse Z3, the 
> world's first functional digital computer. However, it is considered 
> unlikely that von Neumann was aware of Zuse's work when he presented his 
> architecture in 1945."
> 
> BUT: nobody gives a shit, whether or not someone knows about proir 
> rights (or not).

It is clear that *you* don't "give a shit" because this additional
information completely destroys your argument.  However, that is a fallacy.

> It is patently irrelevant, whether von Neumann knew the patents of Zuse 
> (or not).

No, that is actually the core issue here.

> But theft is still theft, even if it is for the sake of national pride.

There was no theft.  You are delusional.

F'up2 comp.lang.misc again

(With your newsreader [Thunderbird], you have to *manually* *add* back* the
original groups in order to keep crossposting without Followup-To.  So this
is not a newsreader bug, but *malice* on your part, perhaps out of
delusions of grandeur.  JFYI: Your postings are *NOT* *that* *important*
that you have to blast them to 3 newsgroups *continuously*, only one of
which has to do with the topic of the discussion.)

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
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#667703 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromJanis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Date2025-12-07 11:42 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h3ln0$1o41s$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#667698
On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>> [...]
>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
> 
> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
> actually the Z1 of 1937.

Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.

My point was just when the first _working_ digital and programmable
computer was invented. - And in my humble opinion that was the Z3!

A bit care must be taken though with your quoted Wiki paragraph:
"Viele Ideen der Von-Neumann-Architektur [...]"
It's - at least by this statement - open what was already existing
and what property was new in von Neumann's concepts. - Here's where
the arguments may become heated; remember my statement about: "just
define the properties of the own invention, and every other (prior)
system may not match by some detail" (sort of).

The sometimes used technology reasoning is certainly not convincing
if we're speaking about the architecture principles and concepts.

> [...]

> It is patently irrelevant, whether von Neumann knew the patents of Zuse 
> (or not).
Yes, basically also true. - But mind that a "Deutsches Reichspatent"
isn't valid in the USA. You need a separate application in the USA.

What's also true is that even a "Deutsches Reichspatent" would make
it possible to make a correct historic attribution of that invention
(if only 'ex post').

> 
> Therefore the patents of Zuse were simply stolen and also the invention 
> itself ascribed to somebody else

Given that they assume that von Neumann did not know about Zuse's
invention I think that the word "stolen" is a too harsh valuation.

I agree concerning the existing (and common) ascription mischief.

> 
>> [...]
>>
>> But yes, history was widely misrepresented and ignoring those!
>> This is an effect you can observe also in other technical areas.
> 
> But theft is still theft, even if it is for the sake of national pride.

Yes, but consider also what I wrote above.

Janis

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#667706 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2025-12-07 16:26 +0200
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<20251207162641.00004c27@yahoo.com>
In reply to#667703
On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:42:40 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:  
> >> [...]
> >> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.  
> > 
> > Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
> > actually the Z1 of 1937.  
> 
> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
> 

I'd say, no. Neither Z1 nor Z3 are von Neumann architecture computers.
And it has nothing to them being either electronic or mechanical.
The key element (==distinguishing feature) of von Neumann architecture,
at least in modern (say, of last 60-65 years) meaning of the term
is that program store and data memory reside in the same space. Which
leads to possibility of self-modifying code. Which led to Von
Neumann's claim that index register is unnecessary for array
processing. Which is undeniable mathematical truth and serious
engineering mistake at the same time.

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#667721 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromJanis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Date2025-12-08 04:25 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h5gfd$1o41s$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#667706
On 2025-12-07 15:26, Michael S wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:42:40 +0100
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>>>> [...]
>>>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
>>>
>>> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was
>>> actually the Z1 of 1937.
>>
>> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
>> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
>>
> 
> I'd say, no. Neither Z1 nor Z3 are von Neumann architecture computers.

Right. - Considering all properties, von Neumann's computers had a
von Neumann's architecture.

> And it has nothing to them being either electronic or mechanical.

(This was just one common example by some to attest its innovation
and being "the first".)

> The key element (==distinguishing feature) of von Neumann architecture,
> at least in modern (say, of last 60-65 years) meaning of the term
> is that program store and data memory reside in the same space.

Yes. But is that crucial for a programmable computer? Is that the
functionally necessary or important element? - I'd clearly say no!


> Which leads to possibility of self-modifying code.

And that specifically is neither a necessity for a "[universally]
programmable computer" - IMO the historic noteworthy key property! -
nor an example how systems sensibly should be (or are) programmed.
We avoid in practice exactly that property (modulo virus-developers,
maybe, and similar corner cases).

> Which led to Von
> Neumann's claim that index register is unnecessary for array
> processing. Which is undeniable mathematical truth and serious
> engineering mistake at the same time.

Yes.


An inherent logical problem lies also in the argumentation chain
we commonly see...
"Contemporary computers are "basically" all characterized by
  von Neumann's architectures."
"Von Neumann's computers are defined by ...property list..."
"Von Neumann was the inventor of [contemporary] computers."
(I assume you notice the dodge.)

I really don't want to engage in such discussions[*] but I think we
should at least understand the mechanics behind that. The interests
and the rhetoric/argumentation moves used to establish such agendas.

Janis

[*] We know how the inventions have been and (partly) still are
attributed, we see the various areas, and the actors' agendas and
interests, and we observe that also on various levels (countries,
competing companies, partners, plain sponges, gender status, etc.);
there's countless examples of historic mis-attributions.

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#667724 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2025-12-08 08:51 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h601k$e17a$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>
In reply to#667721
Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 2025-12-07 15:26, Michael S wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:42:40 +0100
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was
>>>> actually the Z1 of 1937.
>>>
>>> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
>>> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
>>
>> I'd say, no. Neither Z1 nor Z3 are von Neumann architecture computers.
> 
> Right. - Considering all properties, von Neumann's computers had a
> von Neumann's architecture.

*facepalm*

Once again:

| Von Neumann consulted for the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, most
| notably on the ENIAC project,[274] as a member of its Scientific Advisory
| Committee.[275] Although the single-memory, stored-program architecture is
| commonly called von Neumann architecture, the architecture was based on
| the work of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its
| successor, EDVAC. While consulting for the EDVAC project at the University
| of Pennsylvania, von Neumann wrote an incomplete "First Draft of a Report
| on the EDVAC". The paper, whose premature distribution nullified the
| patent claims of Eckert and Mauchly, described a computer, that stored
| both its data and its program in the same address space, unlike the
| earliest computers which stored their programs separately on paper tape or
| plugboards. This architecture became the basis of most modern computer
| designs.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Computer_science>	

FOLLOWUP-TO comp.lang.misc! (for the single-celled ones)
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#667726 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2025-12-08 13:58 +0200
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<20251208135825.000069dc@yahoo.com>
In reply to#667721
On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 04:25:32 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 2025-12-07 15:26, Michael S wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:42:40 +0100
> > Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:  
> >>> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis
> >>> Papanagnou:  
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.  
> >>>
> >>> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was
> >>> actually the Z1 of 1937.  
> >>
> >> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
> >> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
> >>  
> > 
> > I'd say, no. Neither Z1 nor Z3 are von Neumann architecture
> > computers.  
> 
> Right. - Considering all properties, von Neumann's computers had a
> von Neumann's architecture.
> 
> > And it has nothing to them being either electronic or mechanical.  
> 
> (This was just one common example by some to attest its innovation
> and being "the first".)
> 
> > The key element (==distinguishing feature) of von Neumann
> > architecture, at least in modern (say, of last 60-65 years) meaning
> > of the term is that program store and data memory reside in the
> > same space.  
> 
> Yes. But is that crucial for a programmable computer? Is that the
> functionally necessary or important element? - I'd clearly say no!
> 

Is it not particularly important for programmable computer.
When I design MCU-based systems, my MCUs are physically able to do von
Neumann (i.e. to run program from RAM) but I don't utilize this
property, treating them as if they were Harvard.
The biggest and fastest growing computing business of recent years
is based on programmable computers (GPGPUs, TPUs, NPUs) that can not
modify theier own programs.
However, computers with which we interact most, so called
general-purpose computers, from smartphones to servers, are very
heavily dependent on being von Neumann.

> 
> > Which leads to possibility of self-modifying code.  
> 
> And that specifically is neither a necessity for a "[universally]
> programmable computer" - IMO the historic noteworthy key property! -
> nor an example how systems sensibly should be (or are) programmed.
> We avoid in practice exactly that property (modulo virus-developers,
> maybe, and similar corner cases).
> 

You are thinking about SMC at small. Think about it at larger scale.
Level one: OS loads application. It's rare that it just blindly
copies the image from disk. More often it modifies it to fit at
particular address. Esp. so today, with ASLR considered must.
Level two: JIT. For good or for bad, a cornerstone of modern web.

> > Which led to Von
> > Neumann's claim that index register is unnecessary for array
> > processing. Which is undeniable mathematical truth and serious
> > engineering mistake at the same time.  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> An inherent logical problem lies also in the argumentation chain
> we commonly see...
> "Contemporary computers are "basically" all characterized by
>   von Neumann's architectures."
> "Von Neumann's computers are defined by ...property list..."
> "Von Neumann was the inventor of [contemporary] computers."
> (I assume you notice the dodge.)
> 
> I really don't want to engage in such discussions[*] but I think we
> should at least understand the mechanics behind that. The interests
> and the rhetoric/argumentation moves used to establish such agendas.
> 

I don't find it interesting.

> Janis
> 
> [*] We know how the inventions have been and (partly) still are
> attributed, we see the various areas, and the actors' agendas and
> interests, and we observe that also on various levels (countries,
> competing companies, partners, plain sponges, gender status, etc.);
> there's countless examples of historic mis-attributions.
> 

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#667751 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Date2025-12-09 09:15 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<mpq3pkF8qlmU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#667721
Am Montag000008, 08.12.2025 um 04:25 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
> On 2025-12-07 15:26, Michael S wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:42:40 +0100
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
>>>>
>>>> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was
>>>> actually the Z1 of 1937.
>>>
>>> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
>>> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
>>>
>>
> 
> An inherent logical problem lies also in the argumentation chain
> we commonly see...
> "Contemporary computers are "basically" all characterized by
>   von Neumann's architectures."
> "Von Neumann's computers are defined by ...property list..."
> "Von Neumann was the inventor of [contemporary] computers."
> (I assume you notice the dodge.)
> 
> I really don't want to engage in such discussions[*] but I think we
> should at least understand the mechanics behind that. The interests
> and the rhetoric/argumentation moves used to establish such agendas.
> 
> Janis
> 
> [*] We know how the inventions have been and (partly) still are
> attributed, we see the various areas, and the actors' agendas and
> interests, and we observe that also on various levels (countries,
> competing companies, partners, plain sponges, gender status, etc.);
> there's countless examples of historic mis-attributions.
> 

It's a HUGE problem, because tons of almost every kind of art, music, 
invention, writing and so forth was not created by the famed person, who 
allegedly created it.

Usually you have an 'alpha', who didn't do anything at all (sing, paint, 
write or invent) and a (or occasionally many) 'beta' who did all the 
difficult work for a small amount of money.

Now the 'alpha' gets the product of a certain beta from an agent (let's 
call that 'Q') and declares it to be the own work.

Other scumbags clap their hands and write euphoric articles.

The work is copied and sold millions of times and everybody is happy.

(Well, not quite everybody is happy. But that little inconvenience could 
be accepted.)


TH

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#667723 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Date2025-12-08 08:21 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<mpnc8cFopp2U5@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#667703
Am Sonntag000007, 07.12.2025 um 11:42 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
> On 2025-12-07 10:22, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag000004, 04.12.2025 um 09:57 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>>> [...]
>>> That's the date of the Z1, isn't it? - The Z3 came later, 1941.
>>
>> Sure, but the first computer using 'von Neumann architecture' was 
>> actually the Z1 of 1937.
> 
> Well, yes. At least mostly. That's why I've written upthread that
> the concepts from the earlier Z1 were reused in Z3.
> 
> My point was just when the first _working_ digital and programmable
> computer was invented. - And in my humble opinion that was the Z3!
> 
> A bit care must be taken though with your quoted Wiki paragraph:
> "Viele Ideen der Von-Neumann-Architektur [...]"
> It's - at least by this statement - open what was already existing
> and what property was new in von Neumann's concepts. - Here's where
> the arguments may become heated; remember my statement about: "just
> define the properties of the own invention, and every other (prior)
> system may not match by some detail" (sort of).
> 
> The sometimes used technology reasoning is certainly not convincing
> if we're speaking about the architecture principles and concepts.
> 
>> [...]
> 
>> It is patently irrelevant, whether von Neumann knew the patents of 
>> Zuse (or not).
> Yes, basically also true. - But mind that a "Deutsches Reichspatent"
> isn't valid in the USA. You need a separate application in the USA.


An invention needs to be new.

Otherwise it is not an invention.

At least this is the main principle upon which patents are granted in 
Germany.

The US-patent office is based upon a slightly different principle.

The main principle is that of a 'claim', which is occupied by some company.

This difference can also be found in the difference between US copyright 
and German 'Urheberrecht'.

German Urheberrecht is not based on any kind of registration, but 
automatically granted to the creator of some sort of art.

And patents can not be registered in Germany, if the invention isn't 
new, whether 'prior art' is registered, patended or just published in a 
magazine.

This is a huge difference, because no formal registration of prior art 
is necessary.

In contrast the US patent is mainly a claim and 'occupied' by whatever 
dirty means necessary.

...


TH

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#667725 — Re: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)

FromJanis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Date2025-12-08 09:06 +0100
SubjectRe: parallel random-access machine (parallel RAM or PRAM)
Message-ID<10h60um$1o41r$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#667723
On 2025-12-08 08:21, Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> An invention needs to be new. Otherwise it is not an invention.

Not only new, but also not being something considered trivial or
otherwise not "worthy" of being a patent.

> At least this is the main principle upon which patents are granted in 
> Germany.

In the German patent history we can observe that even marvellous
inventions have not been granted a patent because the officials
could neither understand nor see the actual or potential future
relevance and usefulness.

(My point was the [non-existing] reach of a German patent in the
USA.)

> 
> The US-patent office is based upon a slightly different principle.
> 
> The main principle is that of a 'claim', which is occupied by some company.

With a granted patent in Germany you can exploit the commercial
gains yourself or with companies licensing the patents during
the first years after getting the patent.

Besides the commercial aspects the primary point of a patent can
probably be derived from the meaning of its name; Latin "patere",
to be open [for the society], to provide gain for mankind.

(Semantics in popular recognition may have changed given the
prevalence of commercial thinking worldwide.)

> [snip digressions to 'US copyright' and 'Urheberrecht']

Janis

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