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Thursday, October 21, 2004

The Infinity Machine

The Infinity Machine (to read) "is an extended speculation. Based on an idea I got from a book I read once, and refined over many years of idle moments, it tries to imagine what the field of computing would be like if computers were able to run infinitely fast." Via Adam.

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One use of an infinity machine would be to calculate the optimal program for any given problem. I could take my Java class files, the libraries and the Java interpreter and put them through the infinity machine, which would output the smallest possible program that provided the same functionality.

∴ Alan Green | 21-Oct-2004 8:49am est | http://cardboard.nu | #5964

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