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Church-Turing thesis

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Anything 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, 2025

A 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, 2025

civil 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

service integration in the civil rights movement

Lunch counter boycotts. Nashville became the first desegregated lunch counter.

Civillian Conservation Corps

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A 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, 2025

key 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.