Minecraft Meta – Players Build Computers Within Computer Games

Perhaps my colleagues and friends can help me out, since I neither play Minecraft nor have a deep understanding of computer science, but this astonished me nonetheless.  It seems players in Minecraft have accomplished a great feat and made computing recursive by building simple computers within the game world.


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Sporder is a Word

We’re making it happen.  ”Sporder,” is short for “spontaneous order” and is used to describe any scenario where such an order can be found.  It’s catchy, economical, and intuitive and it requires but 2 syllables as opposed to 7.  We have come up with a precise definition for a sporder, as well as categories the various types of sporder found within our universe. Continue reading