| Altreus | rindolf: you can make a processor in minecraft yes |
| rindolf | Altreus: ah, OK. |
| Altreus | a computer in a computer |
| rindolf | Let's write a Perl->Minecraft compiler. |
| Altreus | very meta |
| rindolf | Implementing a Turing complete interpreter inside a VM is not hard. |
| rindolf | vi keystrokes (not vimscript) are also Turing complete. |
| rindolf | As is the Game of Life and infinite Minesweeper |
| jettero | rindolf: I can almost imagine GoL, but how is minesweeper going to be Turing complete? |
| Altreus | nuts |
| Altreus | that always worked for me |
| Altreus | maybe you have to log in at least once |
| woldrich | bah |
| rindolf | jettero: http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/ |
| rindolf | jettero: I have not read the paper. |
| rindolf | jettero: of course, true Turing completeness is only possible with infinite memory. |
| LeoNerd | Ah OK |
| * f00li5h | hands rindolf an infinite hotel, and books every even room |
| rindolf | f00li5h: :-) |
| * rindolf | books every odd room that is divided by three. |
| rindolf | f00li5h: is it א_0, א_1 or something more infinite? |
| f00li5h | it's as infinite as it can be! |
| rindolf | f00li5h: ah, good. |
| rindolf | f00li5h: then I can book room pi. |
| rindolf | Or sqrt(2). |
| f00li5h | you sure can. |
| rindolf | Nice. |
| f00li5h | but you might like something a little more spacious |
| rindolf | Ah. |
| f00li5h | like the rooms between 1 and 2 |
| rindolf | Which room do you recommend? |
| rindolf | Ah. |
| j_wright | what about sqrt(-1)? |
| f00li5h | plenty of space there |
| f00li5h | j_wright: that room's popular, I'd imagine it's booked |
| f00li5h | the biggest problem is allotting extensions on the room phones |
| Altreus | my infinite hotel's rooms have two numbers each, being a point on the complex plane |
| Altreus | it increases address lookup time |
| Altreus | also the hotel happens to be all one floor so that helps |
| j_wright | so they get two sets of addresses? |
| j_wright | polar too |
| f00li5h | take the ⧜th left, and then head down ∞th right |
| Altreus | no just one |
| Altreus | each room is unique |
| j_wright | or turn n degrees and go m forward |
| Altreus | oh yes I suppose you could map their addresses to a new coordinate space but that's true of any plane with a landmark |
| Altreus | the car park is at 0,i, for your information |