Em 19/04/2010 14:53, Igor Stasenko < [email protected] > escreveu:
> On 19 April 2010 20:29, Michael Haupt wrote:
> > Hi Igor,
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> >> Computer always 'knows' what next operation it going to perform,
> >> and don't need to use any precedence.
> > ... enter quantum computers. :-P
> > let me rephrase that: by building any machine, we using a certain
> set of principles, on which it will function. So then, we could
> _predict_ how it will behave, if we provide a set of instructions.
NO. As historical counter examples there are the Neural net based computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons which was built as a machine,
or the homeostat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat (ditto).
my 0.019999...
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Cesar Rabak
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