The fork call returns twice: once in the parent process, where the return value is the process identifier of the child, and once in the child process, where the return value is 0.
“A man's life is like a story, told badly by a fool, whose shouts and strong words make it seem important. But it means nothing.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“irrespective of the lack of biological evidence, that brains were just another kind of computer.”
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“Turing proved, mathematically, that if you choose the right set of rules for the CPU and give it an indefinitely long tape to work with, it can perform any definable set of operations in the universe. It would be one of many equivalent machines now called Universal Turing Machines.”
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
“is all 1’s and 0’s underneath, and any Turing Machine can be programmed to handle it. Information processing is information processing is information processing. All digital computers are logically equivalent.”
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
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