choice machine

noun

Etymology

Turing introduced "c-machines" in his 1936-37 paper "On Computable Numbers" to represent machines that, upon reaching a certain state, require an "arbitrary choice" to be made.

Definitions

  1. A type of computing model where the next action is not entirely determined by its current…

    A type of computing model where the next action is not entirely determined by its current state and the symbol it reads.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for choice machine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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