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Considering I learnt this week bees have been shown to understand numerical symbols to the point of accociating them with quantity, using bees might be getting
by BuildTheRobots 7y ago
Considering I learnt this week bees have been shown to understand numerical symbols to the point of accociating them with quantity, using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking. I mean, we all know how badly that turned out with PDFs, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103292
- codetrotter 7y ago> using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking Doom on bees. NetBSD on bees. Linux on bees. TensorFlow on bees. Software as a hive. Bees as a service. All of that would be... the bee's knees.
- rpeden 7y agoBees as a service has existed for quite a long time and is a pretty interesting business: https://m.phys.org/news/2018-05-farmer-hiveinside-world-renting-bees.html https://m.phys.org/news/2018-05-farmer-hiveinside-world-rent...
- gpvos 7y agoPDFs are not Turing complete (PostScript is).
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoI knew about postcript (who doesn't lock up office printers by rendering mandlebrot sents?) but was absolutely convinced PDFs were as well. They're not and it seems they quite deliberately weren't as well. [1] - thanks for setting me straight :) [1] https://www.cs.odu.edu/~zeil/cs390/latest/Public/turing-complete/index.html https://www.cs.odu.edu/~zeil/cs390/latest/Public/turing-comp...
- gpvos 7y agoActually, you can have Javascript in PDF nowadays, so...