phil

This so amazing is so many levels that I don't have words to explain it. A Turing machine built out of Lego that works! 😍

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7

Who would buy one and hack on it?

“Beware of the Turing tarpit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.”

— Alan J. Perlis, “Epigrams on Programming”, 1984
First Turing award winner, 1966

Lecture by Alan Kay riffing on the "Tarpit" idea, modifying it into a "pep talk" and inverting it to a positive: "Extracting Energy from the Turing Tarpit" (2012)

“Beware of the Turing tarpit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.”

— Alan J. Perlis, “Epigrams on Programming”, 1984
First Turing award winner, 1966

Lecture by Alan Kay riffing on the "Tarpit" idea, modifying it into a "pep talk" and inverting it to a positive: "Extracting Energy from the Turing Tarpit" (2012)

https://youtu.be/Vt8jyPqsmxE?si=EHzXNfHwxLjYqiz3

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Be cautious in the Turing tarpit, where possibilities abound but the truly valuable is difficult to find