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Actors keep getting rediscovered because they are universal abstraction for digital computation.
by ProfHewitt 7y ago
Actors keep getting rediscovered because they are universal abstraction for digital computation.
- DonHopkins 7y agoMy nightmare scenario is that Larry Ellison rediscovers the Oracle Turing Machine, and copyrights its API. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/supreme-court-will-review-high-stakes-google-v-oracle-ruling/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/supreme-court-wi... (In the cover photo of that article, it looks like people have been urinating on the Oracle logo!)
- mathgladiator 7y agoI believe it, and I think we are in this stage of figuring out which model to represent it make the most sense in a broader scope.