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60 lines
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# turing dance recipe application
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a recipe for the critical coding cookbook
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=> https://parsonsdt.github.io/critical-coding-cookbook/ critical coding cookbok
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# metadata
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## title
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turing dance (t-d)
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## short description (250 words)
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turing dance (t-d) is a ritual for a group of three people interested in embodying a slow, sweaty, organic, inefficient, computational machine. this machine has no other use than to have some fun, dancing together, while we imagine other possible worlds.
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t-d consists in revisiting and reappropriating a type of hypothetical computing machine described by alan turing in a 1936 paper; an abstract machine that would later be called a "turing machine".
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here, we don't discuss this machine in its original abstract sense. we don't use it as one of the fundamental concepts needed to understand the possibilities and limitations of computation; we don't use it to actually build programmable electronic computers.
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we don't even talk about the universal version of these machines, and their possibility of simulating any other one.
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we just get together and dance according to a simple set of choreographic rules.
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a person handles a row of symbols constructed with a series of found objects, one of them a a time; dancing to communicate what's in front of them. another person moves and signals a specific machine-body configuration. the third one tries to make sense of it all, reading movements and performing some others, guiding the group in traversing different "states".
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it happens that, if we move without so-called mistakes, we'll be performing, maybe without noticing, a specific computation, an algorithm that in other contexts could have some purpose.
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if we do make mistakes, nothing bad will happen: our time would have been equally well spent.
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## three keywords
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* permacomputing
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* choreography
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* turing machines
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## long description (500-800 words)
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Please respond to the following questions in your description:
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* What is the context or background that inspired your recipe?
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* Which community are you offering the recipe to?
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* How does your submission relate to intersectional feminism?
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## images (optional)
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* Image credits
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* Alt-text description for the image
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* Confirmation of coverage under open-source license
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## further readings (optional)
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=> http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html permacomputing | viznut
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=> https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf on computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem - alan turing 1936
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# turing dance (t-d) recipe
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