On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 1:47:35 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/10/2019 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 6 May 2019, at 10:25, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 6:55:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > When I follow a recipe (a program) to make a meal, I mix the identified > ingredients in the specified order and cook according to the specified > times. > > The meal is tasty (hopefully). Entering the recipe into a computer (even > if there was some sort of recipe interpreter) does not result in a tasty > meal. > > > That is straw man. A recipe is not an algorithm, even is sometimes it is > used as a pedagogical tool to explain what is an algorithm. > > To refute mechanism, you need to simulate both the recipe, the food and > the taster. > > > And the kitchen. > > > Brent > >
*A recipe is an algorithm for cooking up bites in a kitchen.* *An algorithm is a recipe for cooking up bytes in a computer.* @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a3a7d8f5-782e-447b-9907-6123687f742b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
