Ep. 374: The Death Cross with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The History of Computing
Daniel Dennett is one of my favorite philosophers. One of his great books is Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. I want to read a few excerpts about computing, the historical legacy and what's behind computing from Daniel Dennett. The idea that an algorithm is a fool proof mechanical procedure has been present for centuries but it was the pioneering work of Alan Turing, Kurt Godel and Alonzo Church in the 1930s that more or less fixed our current understanding of the term.
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