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Why would they simulate a linked list using tuples? It seems a bit contrived (or rather, not Pythonic) when lists are a built-in datatype.

In the context of Turing machines, the output is really a _binary_ string, not a string of arbitrary characters. So in a sense, those two programs are the same thing. But of course…

I'm not super familiar with the various theories of probability, but if you're interested in thinking of these kinds of things, you might enjoy reading about the Universal Distribu…

I think I made the point to say that random only applies to things being drawn from a distribution, but that's really the whole point of the theory: we _want_ to be able to talk ab…