Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 28/01/15 20:04, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il writes: After a brief Google search: Does anyone know about any research, theory or practice of time-varying finite state machines? Short answer: I don't. ;-) I'll offer a couple of thoughts, anyway. I mean FSMs which might

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-29 Thread Ori Idan
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 28/01/15 20:04, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il w...@zak.co.il writes: After a brief Google search: Does anyone know about any research, theory or practice of time-varying finite state

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 29/01/15 15:37, Ori Idan wrote: Didn't you just describe a Turing machine? Turing machine is finite and has certain number of states with defined transitions. I think what Omer meant here was more of a dynamic Turing machine. Since a Turing machine has an infinite amount of memory,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Didn't you just describe a Turing machine? I don't think so. No one said anything about having an infinite number of states, for instance. There may or may not be a connection, so what? A Turing machine is a theoretical construct, I thought the