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Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
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The Busy Beaver Function and Its Properties
This chapter explores the concept of the busy beaver function, its origin, and its properties. It discusses how the function can be used to name numbers and its connection to paradoxes and ambiguity. Additionally, it explores the unsolvability of the halting problem and Gödel's incompleteness theorem in relation to the busy beaver function.
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