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Re:Natural language instructions induce generalization in ne... by Jensson on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @06:00PM (#39760749)
Analogue computers aren't equivalent to Turing machines.
Re:Natural language instructions induce generalization in ne... by ben_w on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:16PM (#39761308)
No physical computer is a perfect Turing machine, thanks to random noise.

Analogue computers can always implement a Turing machine to within the bounds of that noise (and that's how transistors, which are really analogue devices, get used for digital signal and information processing).

A computer that used infinite-precision real numbers would be more powerful than any Turing machine, however unlimited-precision real numbers in the physical universe are prohibited by the holographic principle and the Bekenstein bound so we can't have them.