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Computation
Computation is any type of calculation that includes both arithmetical and non-arithmetical steps and follows a well-defined model understood and described as, for example, an algorithm.
The study of computation is paramount to the discipline of computer science.
The study of computation is paramount to the discipline of computer science.
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Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.
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― Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
― Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
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Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff, bigger data. It's actually just as important to prune away big parts of the data that aren't relevant to the problem at hand! The fastest computation is the one you don't do.
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― Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
― Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
