- Paul Dorpat (October 28, 1938 – May 27, 2026) was an American historian, author and photographer, who specialized in the history of Seattle and Washington state. He had a weekly column in The Seattle Times and was the principal historian of HistoryLink.org, a site devoted to Washington state history.
- Turing kicked us out of Heaven (buttondown.com)
The halting problem is “undecidable”: there’s no algorithm which can tell you if an arbitrary program with an arbitrary input will halt or not. IE, if you give me a proposed “halt-detector”, I can inspect it and come up with a program and input for which it would give the wrong answer.
- Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on October 28, 1938, [Paul] Dorpat grew up in Spokane, Washington.
- He [Paul Dorpat] was a key figure of Seattle’s first underground newspaper, the Helix, which was published from March 23, 1967, until June 11, 1970.