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What's fascinating IMO is the realization that being able to compute anything needs very little requirements, that more complex models of machines, way differen
by dietr1ch 7y ago
What's fascinating IMO is the realization that being able to compute
anything needs very little requirements, that more complex models
of machines, way different or with "obvious" improvements like more
tapes, symbols or random access can't actually do more, but only
hope that implementations end up being faster despite having more
complex steps.
This is why you see some "shitty" esoteric programming languages
where you think that nothing useful can be done, like Brainfuck end
up being Turing-complete.
The same is true for logic circuits, alone NOT, AND and OR are sort
of useless, but get NOT and another one and now you can start
building anything.
Even some board games are Turing-complete, probably MtG is not the
simplest example, but I bet there's a bunch of other ones that I don't
know about.