Bragging thread August 2015

philh

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.

Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.

So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?

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So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?

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Your scheme may well he more powerful than a Turing machine (i.e., if there were something in the world that behaves according to your model then it could do computations impossible to a mere Turing machine) but much of what you write seems to indicate that you think you have implemented your scheme. In Python. On an actual computer in our universe.

Obviously that is impossible (unless Python running on an actual computer in our universe can do things beyond the capabilities of Turing machines, which it can't).

Could you clarify explicitly whether you think what you have implemented is "more powerful than every supercomputer in the world" in any useful sense? What do you expect to happen if you feed your code a problem that has no Turing-computable solution? (What I expect to happen: either it turns out that you have a bug and your code emits a wrong answer, or your code runs for ever without producing the required output.)

I'm sorry that I over estimated my achievements. Thank you for being civil.

What do you expect to happen if you feed your code a problem that has no Turing-computable solution?

I'm actually quite interested in this. For something like the busy beaver function, it just runs forever with the output being just fuzzy and gets progressively less fuzzy but never being certain.

Although I wonder about something like super-tasks somehow being described for my model. You can definite get input from arbitrarily far in the future, but you can do even crazier things... (read more)