[Klug-general] XO laptop

Goldfish goldfish654 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 23:56:29 UTC 2008


2008/10/17 Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk>:
> Well, I recently figured out that it is possible to build a turing complete computer
> from nothing more than ants and bottled pheromones, but then you can solve even more
> complex problems than a simple turing machine using the ant's ability to organise.

The fact it's turing complete is almost irregardless - since pretty
much any computer could be said to be such - given unlimited storage.

Self-organisation is a pretty useful thing - but understanding how it
works would be far more useful than just exploiting it ;)



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