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This document appears to be a single page (page 250) from a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?', bearing the Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015940, suggesting it was part of a document production to the House Oversight Committee. The text discusses computer science logic, specifically Rice's Theorem (proven by Henry Rice at Syracuse University in 1951) and lists unsolvable programming problems like the Self-halting Problem and Dead Code Elimination. There are no direct references to Jeffrey Epstein, his associates, or specific financial/travel activities on this specific page, though the scientific context aligns with Epstein's known interest in theoretical science and academia.

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Henry Rice Mathematician/Logician
Subject of the text regarding 'Rice's Theorem', proven as part of his doctoral thesis.

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Syracuse University
University where Henry Rice proved his theorem in 1951.
House Oversight Committee
Inferred from the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015940' at the bottom of the page.

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Syracuse University
Location of Henry Rice's doctoral thesis work.

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Henry Rice → Academic → Syracuse University
proven in 1951 as part of his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University

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"No nontrivial feature of a computer program can be automatically derived."
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"This means the logic limit in computers is low, and computer programmers have job security."
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Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
algorithm, but a ∀∃∀, (for all, there exists, for all), is not. Each individual type of problem within the class must be examined with insight and understanding.
Our lives are full of problems – playing chess, finding a mate, designing space ships and simply getting to work in the morning. Imagine we expressed everyday problems as logical problems. Where is the logic limit for life? We have no answer for this yet, but we do know the logic limit for computing; it is given by Rice’s Theorem.
Named after Henry Rice, and proven in 1951 as part of his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University, Rice’s Theorem states: “No nontrivial feature of a computer program can be automatically derived.” You cannot tell if a program will halt with a given input. You cannot tell if one program will generate the same output as another. You cannot tell if a simpler program could be written to do the same task as a more complex one. In fact, no nontrivial thing can be proven. This means the logic limit in computers is low, and computer programmers have job security.
For Programmers
For the programmers amongst you, here are some of the things that cannot be done automatically even given infinite time:
• Self-halting Problem. Given a program that takes one input, does it terminate when given itself as input?
• Totality Problem. Given a program that takes one input, does it halt on all inputs?
• Program Equivalence Problem. Given two programs that take one input each, do they produce the same result on every input?
• Dead Code Elimination. Will a particular piece of code ever be executed?
• Variable Initialization. Is a variable initialized before it is first referenced?
• Memory Management. Will a variable ever be referenced again?
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