R (complexity) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Set of all decision problems solvable by a Turing machine, i.e. that decide if a string belongs to a recursive language.
Undecidable problem by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Is a decision problem of determining if something belongs to a non-recursive language.
Or in other words: there is no Turing machine that always halts for every input with the yes/no output.
Every undecidable problem must obviously have an infinite number of "possibilities of stuff you can try": if there is only a finite number, then you can brute-force it.
A functional shift, also known as a shift in grammatical function or part of speech shift, refers to the process in linguistics where a word changes its function (or part of speech) without any additional morphological change. This means that a word originally belonging to one grammatical category (like noun, verb, adjective, etc.) is used as a word from a different category.
A long ton, also known as a long ton (UK ton), is a unit of weight that is equal to 1,016 kilograms (or approximately 2,240 pounds). It is primarily used in the United Kingdom and is part of the Imperial system of measurements. The long ton is different from the short ton, which is used primarily in the United States and is equal to 907.185 kilograms (or 2,000 pounds).
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An antiprism is a type of polyhedron that consists of two parallel polygonal bases connected by a band of triangular faces. It can be described as a generalized version of a prism, where instead of the bases being congruent and aligned, the bases are offset from each other and connected by equilateral triangles. Key features of an antiprism include: 1. **Polygonal Bases**: The two bases are identical polygons, such as triangles, squares, or pentagons.
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Isaac Singer can refer to a couple of different things, depending on the context: 1. **Isaac Merritt Singer (1811–1875)**: He was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known for his work in developing the first practical sewing machine. Singer's innovations in sewing machine design led to the founding of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, which became one of the most prominent manufacturers of sewing machines in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Pseudo-marginal Metropolis-Hastings (PMMH) algorithm is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method used for sampling from complex posterior distributions, particularly in Bayesian inference settings. It is especially useful when the likelihood function is intractable or computationally expensive to evaluate directly. ### Overview In standard MCMC methods, a proposal distribution is used to explore the parameter space, and the acceptance criterion is based on the ratio of the posterior probabilities.
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The carry operator, often denoted as "C" or similar symbols in various contexts, typically relates to arithmetic operations, particularly in binary addition. The carry operator is used to manage the overflow that occurs when the sum of two digits exceeds the base of the numeral system.
Effective complexity is a concept that originates from the field of complexity theory, particularly in the context of information theory and systems science. It was introduced by the physicist Gregory Benford and further developed by other researchers to quantify the complexity of a system in a way that reflects its underlying structure rather than just its surface behavior. Effective complexity distinguishes between two types of complexity: **"algorithmic complexity"** and **"effective complexity."** 1.
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Mortal matrix problem by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
One of the most simple to state undecidable problems.
The reason that it is undecidable is that you can repeat each matrix any number of times, so there isn't a finite number of possibilities to check.

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