Busy Beaver Turing Machines - Computerphile

Published: 02 September 2014
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The Busy Beaver game, pointless? Or a lesson in the problems of computability? - How do you decide if something can be computed or not?

Professor Brailsford's code and further reading: http://bit.ly/busybeaver

Turing Machine Primer:    • Turing Machine Primer - Computerphile  
Busy Beaver Code:    • Busy Beaver Code - Computerphile  
Ackermann Follow Up:    • Ackermann Follow Up - Computerphile  
Original 'Ackermann' Film (Most Difficult Program to Compute):    • The Most Difficult Program to Compute...  

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Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer

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