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Re:Show HN: Angelic-hierarchy, a game about Turing machines,... by mlillie on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:32PM (#15811069)
I'm confused, because this answer seems to contradict what "a little grunt work will ascertain" in the article you linked as inspiration
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Re:Show HN: Angelic-hierarchy, a game about Turing machines,... by modalduality on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:26PM (#15812232)
Ah, so Aaronson is talking about the Busy beaver shifts function of 2 there. I gave the answer to the busy beaver function counting the maximum number of 1s.
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Re:Show HN: Angelic-hierarchy, a game about Turing machines,... by mlillie on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:38PM (#15818815)
Gotcha, thanks!
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