Understanding Turing Machines: The Foundation of Modern Computing 🤖

If you study computer science, maths, or philosophy, sooner or later you'll run into Turing Machines. But what are they? How do they work, what have they got to do with computation, and how did they come to be one of the central concepts in computer science? Let's find out!

00:00 - Intro
00:41 - Turing Machines
02:33 - Turing machines since Turing
02:47 - Tally Notation
03:28 - Adding numbers
03:59 - Multiplying numbers
05:07 - Adding Memory
06:03 - Register Machines
07:03 - Other models of computation
08:22 - What I’ve learned from Turing Machines
09:16 - Wrap-Up

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