{"id":316,"date":"2008-03-10T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-03-10T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T14:34:25","slug":"great-ideas-in-theoretical-computer-science-lectures-2-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Great Ideas In Theoretical Computer Science Lectures 2-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who missed it on the sidebar, we now have six more GITCS lecture notes available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec2\/lec2.pdf\">Lecture 2: Logic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec3\/lec3.pdf\">Lecture 3: Circuits and Finite Automata<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec4\/lec4.pdf\">Lecture 4: Turing Machines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec5\/lec5.pdf\">Lecture 5: Reducibility and G\u00f6del<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec6\/lec6.pdf\">Lecture 6: Minds and Machines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/6\/sp08\/6.080\/courseMaterial\/topics\/topic1\/lectureNotes\/lec7\/lec7.pdf\">Lecture 7: Complexity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More are on the way &#8212; compared to the Democritus notes, it&#8217;s so much easier with others doing the writing!  These notes were prepared almost entirely by the students, with only minor editing from me and Yinmeng.  In general, I think the students have been doing a fantastic job.  On the other hand, if you rely on these notes to build a Turing-machine-controlled jumbo jet which then crashes in the Himalayas, it&#8217;s entirely possible that it wasn&#8217;t my fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who missed it on the sidebar, we now have six more GITCS lecture notes available: Lecture 2: Logic Lecture 3: Circuits and Finite Automata Lecture 4: Turing Machines Lecture 5: Reducibility and G\u00f6del Lecture 6: Minds and Machines Lecture 7: Complexity More are on the way &#8212; compared to the Democritus notes, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-gitcs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}