What has speed brought ?
Many good things, to be sure, but more has been omitted. Perhaps Kent Pitman expressed it the best: I want speedups not just to make my same old boring life faster, but to buy me the flexibility to…
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But then I had a whimsical thought; the sort of thing that seems at once not-impossible and yet such a long shot that one can just relax and enjoy exploring it without feeling under pressure to produc…
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The book and class leave it at that and proceed onto the limits of computability, which is the real point of the material. But there’s a natural question that isn’t presented in the book and which I n…