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dfranke comments on Eight questions for computationalists - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: dfranke 13 April 2011 03:58:16PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure what you mean by an abstract machine (and please excuse me if that's a formal term)

I'd certainly regard anything defined within the framework of automata theory as an abstract machine. I'd probably accept substitution of a broader definition.