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Subject: Re: How to write a self-referencial TM?
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On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 15:38 -0500, olcott wrote:
> On 5/16/2025 3:04 PM, Andy Walker wrote:
> > On 16/05/2025 16:57, Mike Terry wrote:
> > [I wrote:]
> > > > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Minsky's "Computation" has on its fro=
nt cover [at least in the
> > > > Open University edition] and inside, as Fig. 7.2.9 on p142, a compl=
ete
> > > > UTM as a state-transition diagram.=C2=A0[...]
> >=20
> > > I found it on Amazon, and sure enough there on its front cover is
> > > the state transition diagram!=C2=A0 It sounds like a great book, but
> > > realistically I've already got too many books in my reading list...
> >=20
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0It /is/ a great book.=C2=A0 Get* it, and =
re-order your reading
> > list to put it first.=C2=A0 The only other CS book that I couldn't put
> > down was the Algol 68 Revised Report.
> >=20
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0 * Somewhat on the other hand, I see that it's $silly on Am=
azon
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 and on Abe, so perhaps you should rather borro=
w it from a
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 library.=C2=A0 In the UK, it was going to be a=
n Open University
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 set book, with therefore guaranteed sales of m=
any thousands,
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 But then the OU pulled out, the book was remai=
ndered, and I
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 got a brand new copy for =C2=A3tiny.
> >=20
>=20
> This repository contains any material needed to run Marvin Minsky's=20
> Universal Turing Machine in Martin Ugarte's "Turing Machine Simulator"=
=20
> and to demonstrate its vulnerability as described by Pontus Johnson
> https://github.com/rozek/Universal-Turing-Machine
>=20

Thanks for the info. that reminds me of your famous words "read by rote"