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by fsckboy 1181 days ago
> There is no such thing as computers without programming.

not sure what you mean by this, because there's no such thing as programming without computers. (actually, the first computers were invented before programmable computers were invented)

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Computing is running a program. That's what computing is. An algorithm is a program. A computer is a machine that performs the algorithm, so we don't have to. The Turing machine computes the answer by running the instructions (the program, the algorithm).
On what computer does the algorithm:

    1. take two slices of bread,
    2. apply peanut butter to one side of one slice, 
    3. apply jelly to one side of the other slice, 
    4. place the slices together with the coated sides touching, and
    5. enjoy.
run?
Sure. What would the study of human behavior or algorithms that aren’t computable with computers be called? Surely not “computer science”…
Humans are biological machines that can compute, no?

Or, you really don't think I can design a logical grammar to formally express the creation of a PB&J?

more to the point, the universe is computational in nature, and humans are, at best, subroutines with a shitty ABI
Obligatory PB & Jelly Exact Instructions Challenge video: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8

The answer is: it runs on dad, poorly :)