My Computer is a Turing Machine!!!

It keeps halting all the freaking time!!!!!

DAMN MOTHEFUCKER HALTING PROBLEM!!!!!
ARRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!!!!!

:splat:

:geek:

:truce:

 

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Well, that was a load of my back....

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You are mean, even to your computer

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I don't think you get the joke.....


Does anyone get the joke? :bugeye:

 

What exactly is a "halt"?

 

It's a joke!!! A joke!!!! :bugeye:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

 

Umm.
Actually, it's a good thing when your computer 'halts'. It's a bad thing when it doesn't.

 

Why!?

 

Did you even read the page on the halting problem or a book about it or anything? Or did you just go by the title?

Sigh.

It's simple.

Turing's Halting Problem goes like this:

A Turing Machine is a specific type of machine that operates in a specific manner. I won't go into the mechanics as that would be unnecessary. Suffice it to say that your computer is not really a Turing Machine as originally specified by Turing, but it could be used to simulate one and it can do pretty much the same thing even in its natural state of operation just not in the exact way Turing described.

Now. Feed a Turing Machine its lunch and it goes to town chewing on it. This data manipulation will have one of two possible outcomes. Either the machine will eventually stop 'chewing' and produce a result, thus 'halting', or it will never stop chewing and never produce a result. It enters an infinite loop.

Turing came up with the idea of feeding the machine every possible set of data (By the way, the data fed to the machine was not only the data to be manipulated, but also the program that was meant to manipulate the data itself.)

The Halting Problem is that there is no way to reliably predict which data set will result in a 'halt' and which results in an infinite loop.

Your computer also goes into an infinite loop and 'locks up'.

'Locking up' and 'halting' are completely opposite to each other.

 

Oh - I thought you were jokingly saying that you have an actual computer problem.

Example - someone give my monitor an exorcism - I can't make it stop ghosting.

 

I'm aware of the halting problem. I don't CARE about the halting problem. This thread is a JOKE. Of course, you need to understand what a turing machine is and at least know that a "halting problem" exist to understand the joke.

My computer is a turing machine, therefore it "halts". Get it?

You know the definition of the word "halt", do you?

 

That's what I was doing, you silly!

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EXACTLY!

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I just gave you Turing's definition of 'halt'.

 

Nevermind.

You're boring! BOOOORIIIIIING!

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