User talk:Matthew Stannard
Culture Pages
What I mean was many countries of cultures do not have a Culture of ... article about them yet in Wikipedia. I think it would be worthwhile to have something on as many of them as possible. Culture lists some articles, but even those are not all that complete. You can look at the list of countries or at the list of ethnic groups and see if you can find one that is lacking in the culture section and that you know something about. Dori | Talk 20:46, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
Dog vomit
Trophallaxis. Explain. Psb777 00:40, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Well, that's what I figured. My e-mails are possibly widely but not universally so regarded. Franklin Jones: "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." Psb777 23:17, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Self-referential words
- self-referential
- word
- newword
- GNU
- missspelt
- glottal
I got those before seeing this: A link to sesquipedalian.
If missspelt is not allowed then many, many others would also have to be disallowed also. I think you must give the reason missspelt should not be allowed. That so-and-so would not allow it is not good enough. Did you see hyphenated and non-hypenated: Mutually-referential. Talk to Psb777 09:16, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry, but I redirected Sir Bob Geldof to the existing page Bob Geldof. You might want to re-add your contribututions, in context. Mintguy (T) 18:08, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Godel Machine
The Turing Machine is not a "fiction" except in one respect. The designs for many implementations of it are published. The mechanical paper tape version was built a few years ago and is in a musuem somewhere. It works. The only way in which it is a "fictional" Turing machine is that it does not have an infinitely long roll of tape.
The Church-Turing thesis shows that all computers are equivalent except in speed and memory capacity. Any computer can emulate any other. The PC is a Turing Machine (with a limited memory). The PC can emulate the Turing Machine - there are several online demos available. The Turing Machine can emulate a very, very slow PC which is very memory hungry - we can't afford the paper.
Many (all?) programs requires only a certain amount of memory for their resolution. The amount of memory depends upon the architecture of the computer and the nature of the program itself.
A PC is a Turing Machine. And if it is not (for your program), add more disk.
I am in the middle of a chain of correspondence with Juergen Schmidhuber, the false prophet of the Godel Machine. His paper does not say how the Godel Machine will be built or even how to go about its design. BUT HE ALSO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE CHURCH-TURING THESIS and, more importantly, HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT A TURING MACHINE IS. He thinks he knows but he doesn't. This is plainly demonstrated in the correspondence.
Paul Beardsell 01:52, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)