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29th March 2010 - Link Blog

A Turing Machine. Someone finally built a real turing machine—and it’s beautiful. All calculations are carried out on a tape, which has 1s and 0s written on it by a robotic dry-erase marker. Hypnotic.

Posted 29th March 2010 at 2:28 pm

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