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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • The point of these lectures is mostly not to teach how to work with Turing machines, it is to understand the theoretical limits of computers. The Turing machine is just a simple to describe and well-studied tool used to explore that.

    For example, are there things there that cannot be computed on a computer, no matter for how long it computes? What about if the computer is able to make guesses along the way, can it compute more? Because of this comic, no — it would only be a lot faster.

    Arguably, many programmers can do their job even without knowing any of that. But it certainly helps with seeing the big picture.



  • I did not know any of the programs mentioned in the post, but some of them seem really nice. Can someone who thinks aliases are a better solution please explain why they think so and what is their advantage over these projects? Do they have any pitfalls that you are aware of?

    I believe that if I use a command sparsely enough, I will forget the created alias name just a few days later than the actual command.