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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | Over at Theoretical Computer Science StackExchange, an entertaining debate has erupted about the meaning and validity of the Church-Turing Thesis. The prompt for this debate was a question asking for opinions about Peter Wegner and Dina Goldin's repetitive diatribes claiming to refute "the myth of the Church-Turing Thesis"---on the grounds that, you see, Turing machines... | |
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windowsontheory.org
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| | | | | (see also pdf version) Quantum computing is one of the most exciting developments of computer science in the last decades. But this concept is not without its critics, often known as "quantum computing skeptics" or "skeptics" for short. The debate on quantum computing can sometimes confuse the physical and mathematical aspects of this question,... | |
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www.lesswrong.com
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| | | | | An epistle to the physicists: ? When I was but a little lad, my father, a PhD physicist, warned me sternly against meddling in the affairs of physici... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | A question long argued in the philosophy of science is the demarcation problem. How to we distinguish science from non-science? Karl Popper famously proposed falsifiability as a criteria. To be science, a theory must make predictions that could turn out to be wrong. It must be falsifiable. Theories that are amorphous or flexible enough to... | ||
