Turing's Vision
by Chris Bernhardt · first published 2016
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How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan. Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science, Chris Bernhardt. The Peripheral, William Gibson. Lila, Robert Pirsig. (re-read)
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…Otherwise, we can call stones as computers. They can do addition and subtraction by the virtue of counting. I am not familiar with Turing's thesis on a theoretical basis (having only read the popular "Turing's Vision" by Chris Bernhardt), is it possible to determine turing completeness of this mechanism?
on “Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)” ↗