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Yet you can't just tell the computer to communicate or do I/O -- it's all controlled by decisions, and making those decisions is basically what I call computati
by mbrock 9y ago
Yet you can't just tell the computer to communicate or do I/O -- it's all controlled by decisions, and making those decisions is basically what I call computation.
- mpweiher 9y agoYep...incidental computation. Also: "primarily"/"mostly". Not all/none.
- mbrock 9y agoHmm, maybe a lot of computation is outsourced to server farms, but "clients" still do a lot of it: image processing, codecs, scheduling, layout, speech recognition, etc etc.
- mpweiher 9y agoSo what are codecs for? Communication, storage. What is speech recognition for? Communication. etc. I think you keep arguing against something I never said, which is that computers do no computing whatsoever.