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saying anything your computer can do in such a sentence is misleading. computers are far far away from turing machines these days. they can do much more. for ex
by vectorEQ 7y ago
saying anything your computer can do in such a sentence is misleading. computers are far far away from turing machines these days. they can do much more. for example, good luck making a socket connection on Magic the gathering. even if you can compute everything you need with it, you will never succeed to connect...
- mankyd 7y agoThat's a statement about the practical engineering involved, yes. However, saying a computer is "Turing complete" is not misleading. It is purely a statement of its mathematical properties. If sockets were given absurd timeouts and/or you could run MtG at much higher speeds, (and it was given a medium through which it could communicate), it would have no problem making a socket connection. It is only the practicality of the matter that becomes a barrier.
- arbitrage 7y agoYou're missing the point.