Knowing .NET

ad.doubleclick.net crashes my Internet Explorer. I think I may have once done some manipulation so that doubleclick.net resolves to the localhost, so what may be happening is that ad.doubleclick.net is trying to resolve to a more specific machine that localhost, timeout, etc.

A Turing machine moving across a tape can also be seen as a triangle of possible cells being occupied / set into a definite state on a plane, a la the evolution of a cellular automata. Hmmm…

I’ve been thinking about P != NP lately. I think the recent advances in thermodynamics of computation give the insight to solve it. Basically, my thought is that if you can characterizes P and NP problems in terms of area (or more specifically, growth), you can apply physical constraints (notably C as the limit of the velocity by which information can propagate) to the problem. Oh goody! Now I can be a crank getting in way over my depth!