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Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media

AI & the Future of Technology2011.02.02
Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
The new blog had been tinkered with for so long that it has finally come to a temporary rest, and I should also write something more serious to explain myself. But this so-called serious writing is not yet that paper I have kept putting off; I’ll deal with that paper properly after the New Year. For now, following the context of tidying up the blog, let me talk about some thoughts on the “network age.” The last class of Wu’s seminar last semester happened to touch on communication in the network age, and I happened to pick up this thread and speak from there. The issue of communication in the…
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2011年2月2日
The Secrets of the Turing Machine

History of Science & Scholarship2010.09.20
The Secrets of the Turing Machine
The second lecture of “What Is Science” was delivered by Yao Qizhi on the life of Turing. Before the class, as a teaching assistant, my dealings with his female secretary already left me with a very bad impression; I hadn’t expected the lecture itself to be disappointing as well. After the lecture I had already written some thoughts, which I’ll paste below first: Frankly speaking, today Teacher Yao’s lecture was disappointing. The introduction to Turing was too watery, and it hardly introduced what Turing’s enormous contribution actually was. It only said that he designed the “Turing machine,” that the Turing machine is a universal computer, that is, the modern computer….
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2010年9月20日

标签：computer

Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media

Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media

The Secrets of the Turing Machine

The Secrets of the Turing Machine