On 19 April 2010 22:04, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 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
And where is a contradiction? A first two paragraphs on that page describing a principles on which it built. And then, you saying that you can't predict how it behaves after you built it using these principles? > which was built as a machine, > or the homeostat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat (ditto). > > my 0.019999... > > -- > Cesar Rabak > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
