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by DougMerritt 1215 days ago
He knows the famous result that "Equivalence of two Turing Machines is undecidable", but hopes to find a subset for which it is decidable, which would allow various interesting algorithms.

Unfortunately a decidable subset is not a Turing Machine ("unrestricted grammar" in the Chomsky hierarchy), which is possibly why the project went inactive.