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| | Decidability Versus Efficiency In the early days of computing theory, the important questions were primarily about decidability. What sorts of problems are beyond the power of a Turing machine to solve? As we saw in our last primer on Turing machines, the halting problem is such an example: it can never be solved a finite amount of time by a Turing machine. However, more recently (in the past half-century) the focus of computing theory has shifted away from possibility in favor of determining feasibility.
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| | I'd like to share a simple proof I've discovered recently of a surprising fact: there is a universal algorithm, capable of computing any given function! Wait, what? What on earth do I ...
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