[Bjartr]

That should be enough for someone with an undergrad CS education to at least get a sense of what's going on if they haven't encountered the busy beaver problem before.

Is it niche jargon, absolutely, but to say it's only accessible to people who have put in decades is selling yourself short.

[ryandrake]

Hmm, interesting. It’s been 30 years since my engineering degree (not CS) and I’d have to look up what a Turing machine is. I think I remember one professor briefly mentioned it as “This is something the CS majors care deeply about but nobody else in the industry does.” Where I was, the CS degree was essentially a math degree dressed up in a hoodie.

[Bjartr]

> This is something the CS majors care deeply about but nobody else in the industry does

Correct, the industry cares a lot more about Software Engineering than Computer Science.

> CS degree was essentially a math degree dressed up in a hoodie.

To a first approximation, that's what it's supposed to be. CS is a field of mathematics. It's not a trade school course.