Epstein Secrets

aper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," published in 1936. The Decision Problem, articulated by Gottingen's David Hilbert, concerned the abstract mathematical question of whether there could ever be any systematic mechanical procedure to determine, in a finite number of

reasonable guess at what you are thinking is good enough. Data mining, on the scale now practiced by Google and the NSA, is the realization of what Alan Turing was getting at, in 1939, when he wondered "how far it is possible to eliminate intuition, and leave only ingenuity," in postulating what he termed

rry. We just jumped forward to quite a complex concept. Let’s take it more slowly. One way to get a better grip on infinity is through the stories of David Hilbert and the Infinity Hotel. Infinity for Dummies Hilbert’s Hotel is a mythical building with an infinite number of rooms. Other than this strange featu

up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” Robert Frost “The brain looks like nothing more than a bowl of cold porridge.” Alan Turing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015786 as looking like a bowl of cold porridge. To get to the porridge you must first cut through the skull, a two-millimeter thic

rand Russell was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, working on a broad range of mathematical problems. Meanwhile, in Germany, his contem- porary David Hilbert, also a polymath, held the chair of mathematics at Gottingen University. Both men shared a common objective: to tidy up the loose ends in mathematics

, or even a physicist, could grasp! That thing is a Turing Machine. We will examine this next. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015898 Chapter 10 TURING’S MACHINE Alan Turing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015899 ‘A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” Alan Turi