Comments on: Post 8 – Mass Post

By: mooj

mooj — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:15:23 +0000

I’ve been listening to and enjoying The Smiths lately thanks to Chris W. (check ‘em out if you haven’t already)

By: Juan

Juan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:22:37 +0000

Ryan, spore is cool but sporn is cooler. Look it up.

Computer science, eh? Yeah, I switched from Aero to Mechanical.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:52:58 +0000

Hey Ryan, check out Fionn Regan (I really like the song Put A Penny In The Slot), and the Fruit Bats album Spelled In Bones (the Earthquake of ‘73 is one of my favorite songs right now). I don’t know how many Avett Brothers records you ended up downloading, but Four Thieves Gone is one that I have been listening to a lot. I hope these help.

By: blitzgren

blitzgren — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:37:51 +0000

I don’t understand Turing Machines aside from it being a string of symbols (whose range is finite) and a processing unit that changes it’s state based on the symbol it’s on, it’s current state, and it’s instructions on what to do for the combination.

The cellular automation of that is absurdly complex to me. But what he did with it was very specific formations that use guns and what not to represent 1 and 0, and collisions of these ‘bullets’ to represent logic. For example: http://rendell-attic.org/gol/pictures/notxor.htm
is a NOT XOR gate, which will produce a 1 only if it’s 2 inputs are the same (00 and 11 produce 1 while 01 and 10 produce 0) In the animation, you notice that the formations shooting off gliders (bullets) represent the 2 1-bit data inputs, and the middle gun represents the 1-bit data output. When the input is 01 or 10, only one of the gliders will reach the middle gliders at a time, and it destroys both. However, if the input is 00 (no gliders from either side), the middle gliders are free to exit, or 11 (one glider from each side) where the two gliders destroy each other before they affect the middle glider.

At least I think.

By: philly j

philly j — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:14:14 +0000

the cellular automation is interesting, i started toying with that a little bit.

I don’t really understand the turing machine- what it is or what it means. Is it just a complex cellular formation that produces a perpetual pattern of motion? I didn’t look at the page for long, but it didn’t seem very explanatory.

And spore, eh? Have you seen these. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKvwd9vJZY&feature=related
. . .weird.

Listen to, the new Bonnie Prince Billy “Lie Down in the Light.”
and Leonard Cohen.

By: notsosoft

notsosoft — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:08:58 +0000

80 percent of that was so nerdy that I cant fathom its meaning…

Music: These are music suggestions that I have been listening to daily…

Keren Ann- you would love her..I LOVE HER, her French stuff and English stuff is great

Ever head of the Weakerthans? I like them and have been listening to them more recently…

Also, for your hip-hop pleasure, I say KRS ONE

For your beat/feel good pleasure, search Matthew Herbert

And there always my two faves…Jeff Buckley and Ani
let me know if you need a mix CD sent up, and I can do that
<3
love you babe