Church-Turing thesis
Last edited: August 8, 2025Anything that can be computed by a reasonable model of computation can also be computed by a turing machine.
“Everyone’s intuitive notion of algorithms is a Turing-machine”
Note that this is not a theorem: its just a scientific hypothesis because we have no formalization of the “intuitive notion”.
multi-tape machines
Consider:

would this give us something stronger? as in, we modify our transition function as simultaneously operating on all tapes
circuit
Last edited: August 8, 2025A circuit is a new model of computation, like turing machines. circuit are defined in terms of boolean logic, with components \(\text{AND}, \text{OR}, \text{NOT}\).
Most important quirk
constituents
- sequence of \(n\) true/false inputs \(x_1, …, x_{n}\)
- a graph with nodes belled AND/OR/NOT combining these things pairwise boolean gates
- a single output true/false
complexity measures of circuits
size (circuits)
number of gates—corresponds roughly to “time complexity”
depth (circuits)
length of the longest part from the output gate to inputs—roughly “parallel time complexity”
civil rights movement
Last edited: August 8, 2025civil rights movement starting
civil rights moment was kicked off by the Rosa Parks incident, which caused the Montomery Bus Boycott.
Martin Luther King capitalized the incident to kick start civil rights movement. He employed the method of nonviolence movement.
educational integration in the civil rights movement
- K-12 disintegration: Brown v. Board of Education
- University of Georgia was the first disintegrated university in the south
service integration in the civil rights movement
Lunch counter boycotts. Nashville became the first desegregated lunch counter.
Civillian Conservation Corps
Last edited: August 8, 2025A part of the New Deal programs for unmarried men to go and build American infrastructure outdoors under reasonably harsh conditions. “Kind of like boy scouts for adults.” It is structured like the military; Black men were segregated and not given leadership roles.
1933-1942.
Clinical Skin Disease Image Generation
Last edited: August 8, 2025key question: are there bias and changes in young children + changes in skin color to generate more samples of skin disease.
previous work: DermGAN (Ghorbani 2020), this is not pediatric and also a bit deterministic.
key problems
data is scarce
data is not available and lack of data sharing.
data is sensitive
especially children.
pediatric specificity
we want to generate children’s skin disease samples, which as vastly out of sample. The work is therefore trained on only 1000-2000ish samples.
