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To: BereanBrain
How long do you suppose it would be before I could randomly generate even a simple useful program? One whose complexity is one billionth that of a living, reproducing, intelligent lifeform?

All it takes is a handful of SK combinators and a very simple machine to run them on to bootstrap an operating system.

Your field may be computer science, but you apparently did not take many graduate courses in algorithmic or computational information theory or you would see where your intuition has failed you.

44 posted on 12/28/2005 3:53:44 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: tortoise

I will compare my grades and 25 years of experience at Cray Research and others to your background anytime.

Again, I challenge YOU - take a 8 bit micro, start feeding in random op codes - when will this machine boot????

You are a IDIOT!


101 posted on 12/28/2005 4:28:42 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: tortoise; BereanBrain

See! I TOLD you!


453 posted on 12/29/2005 5:38:23 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: tortoise; BereanBrain
(Not only THAT, but yer ignurt, too!)

Note that he didn't start with his own dirt.....

...and a very simple machine...

455 posted on 12/29/2005 5:40:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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