Summary of the Turing Machine

  • We can program a machine to function as a Turing Machine
    • In-depth explanation of Turing Machines, why they’re so important, and how all modern computers are Turing Machines
    • Basically, machines that can hold numbers, and manipulate numbers (even just 1s and 0s), can functionally computer almost anything in the world with abstraction

The Ancient Texts

Lovelace, Babbage, and thinking machines

Goedel, Turing, and the great Theory of Computing

  • The theories started in, you guessed it, math
  • Incompleteness, and why this matters
  • The revolutionary discovery by the 17 yr old wiz kid from England, Turing
  • What can we use as tape?
  • How do we manipulate the tape?

von Neumann and The Big ol’ Boys

  • Beginning of computers, von Neumann architecture
  • Development of memory
  • Powering these puppies
  • Original size x power ratios (to compare advances across this post)
  • Original programs, programming languages, scripts, how does that shit all start?
  • LISP, beginnings of AI

Personal Computing

  • Getting smaller
  • Windows vs. Apple, Apple’s 1984 ad
  • How do programs evolve?
  • More updates, how does AI co-evolve with this?

Computers go mobile

The Modern Landscape

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