From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:42:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730174203.GB484@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217418639.5036.31.camel@goose.sun.com>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:50:39AM -0700, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
>
> No. But to give you an example of why that shouldn't matter I would
> like to note that the human thought is, in my opinion, finite. Yet,
> we have developed very nice and efficient tools for comprehending and
> reasoning about infinity.
>
Like the antinomies that shaked the foundations of Mathematics at the
beginning of the 20th century :-^
And as a side note, I'm always happy when I read papers about AI where
somebody explains that a computer will probably be able (using huge
parallelism perhaps!) to solve problems that a humain being can not
solve.
I.e., that a program, that is instructions; this means, finally, integer
numbers (sequence of bits); that is a projection on arithmetic, will be
able to decide undecidable propositions... (I seem to remember something
about Gödel...)
> P.S. I guess, we are getting way off topic here.
Yes, and I will stop there.
Cheers,
--
Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 17:11 andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-28 17:50 ` tlaronde
2008-07-28 19:52 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-28 21:07 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-28 21:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-29 18:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-29 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-30 11:35 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 11:50 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 13:50 ` Paweł Lasek
2008-07-30 17:42 ` tlaronde [this message]
2008-07-30 18:07 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:17 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 11:58 ` Robert Raschke
2008-07-30 13:53 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-30 14:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 15:35 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 16:53 ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-30 12:50 erik quanstrom
[not found] <9b1933b61c606e89a4cbbc93a4b5a204@quanstro.net>
2008-07-30 17:31 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:58 ` Sape Mullender
2008-07-30 20:04 ` tlaronde
2008-08-05 10:34 Richard Maxwell Underwood
2008-08-05 15:28 ` Eris Discordia
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