Amateur Mathematicians Find Fifth ‘Busy Beaver’ Turing Machine | Quanta Magazine
The mathematics behind the halting problem is interesting enough, but what’s really fascinating is the community that coalesced. A republic of numbers.
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28c3: The Science of Insecurity - YouTube
I understand less than half of this great talk by Meredith L. Patterson, but it ticks all my boxes: Leibniz, Turing, Borges, and Postel’s Law.
(via Tim Berners-Lee)
