Saturday, February 15, 2014

Turing's Halting Problem

Wired recently published an excellent article on Turing's Halting Problem (including the humorous poem SCOOPING THE LOOP SNOOPER that describes it). As Aatish Bhatia says: "Computers can drive cars, land a rover on Mars, and beat humans at Jeopardy. But do you ever wonder if there’s anything that a computer can never do?" Well there is - solve the Halting Problem.

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