[FRIAM] Open Letter, draft #2

[Frank Wimberly]

Well, I'm not a sequential machine although my wife has her doubts.

Thanks for the algebraic geometry suggestions.  Jon Zingale and I will try
to master the subject.  Others may join us on Saturday mornings if they
wish.

Frank

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 5:16 PM John Kennison <JKennison at clarku.edu> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
>
> I didn't realize it was supposed to be a joke --it seemed like a relevant
> example. I'm not an algebraic geometer but:
>
>
>  . . . there is a historical survey in
> https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf
> Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra
> <https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf>
> www.ime.usp.br
> Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra Author(s):
> Shreeram S. Abhyankar Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83,
> No. 6 (Jun. - Jul ...
>
>
> <https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf>If
> you read that you can tell if you like Ahbyankar's style. He wrote a more
> thorough survey in 295 pages called "Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and
> Engineers'' (including computer scientists.
>
>
> --John
>
>
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Frank Wimberly <
> wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:53:53 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Open Letter, draft #2
>
> Sorry, John.  It was a weak attempt to be humorous.
>
> Also, I mistyped.  I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a
> book recommendation.
>
> Frank
>
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> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
> John writes:
>
>
>
> “Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do
> which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?”
>
>
>
> A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random
> numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program itself
> (not its memory).   One could make a specialized computer using a FPGA that
> even had an instruction to do that random dispatching.   To counter the
> arguments of Penrose, one could do the same using quantum states.
>
>
>
> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941
>
>
>
> There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical
> supercomputers, of course.
>
>
>
> Marcus
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