On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK) 

Le Sveniste Dann right

Le Sveniste best comment ever

Lol

I don’t understand. Why would you put PowerPoint in your résumé?

@@YouLilalas when you can put your résumé in PowerPoint

they didn't... sorry

@@Bryss you waited long for that job

They did write Fallout 76 in it, though.

@@kalebbruwer nah, PowerPoint is too superior for fallout 76

Loading screens are quick time events as nothing will load without some encouragement :)

ThadIsNOTFood 331 likes Aaaand 0 comment Congrats you won the most trusted person on RU-vid away ( oh wait )

@Thad.... Nope. Zillions of things turn out to be Turing Complete because it's a remarkably easy target to hit. There are theoretical languages with exactly one instruction which are Turing Complete. There are presentations on how the Mov instruction on an Intel CPU is Turing Complete by itself.

the new carpal tunnel syndrome OS, where every instructuon requires you to manually click a button

@@Anohaxer still easier to use than archlinux

@Jan Hoekstra My god, I need PowerPoint™TM™OS™ in my life!!

@@GuardianNoodle shut fuck up

@Jan Hoekstra Don't forget Tom's trademark. It's ((PowerPoint™TM™)™OS)™

you probably can't do this in google slides

@@CringePoop Yeah even though I use google docs because darkmode plugin (i use word 2016 sadly), slides is not that good

@@kerokero_furogu google slides doesnt have the performance, transitions, or animations to make this possible. you can only make linear presentations

"On the turing completeness of HTML + CSS" is still hilarious.

I'm sorry you were doing 3d modelisation on PowerPoint?

@@saph-oceaneroh8414 I just saw the notification and cringed so hard at "I'm usually called a genius". Yes PowerPoint have primitive 3D capabilities, everyone knows you can add 3D effect with Format > Shape Effects > Bevel, some know you can apply a 3D rotation and the shape is "really" 3D, but I could not find anyone (or anything on the internet) that knows that if you group shapes together before applying 3D effects they will share the same "3D space". Meaning the shapes properly intersect in 3D, respect perspective, and share a common rotation. It's very limited, I couldn't find a way to rotate individual shapes or edit their z-axis. But using the 3 bevel settings (front, back, and spacer) there are still a lot of tricks to do. With a lot of patience and a lot of shapes (beware, you can't add shapes after you started applying 3D effects if you do they won't be in the same 3D space) you can create very cool things. Maybe I should do a video about PowerPoint there are a lot of cool tricks I discovered over the years and don't see anywhere else. They are mostly useless but pretty fun to play with and show to your friends. Btw, the last video of Tom Wildenhain inspired me to try and implement a language in PowerPoint. I couldn't get C to work, but a modified version of brainfuck: github.com/Wonshtrum/PowerPointGenerator

@@pygmee6412 Ahaha sorry for digging up your comment like that. It's very informative thanks for taking the time to answer me! The other day I thought it could be cool to create a website using powerpoint only and some redirection based on the width of a device. I'm already regretting thinking about it because now I really sant to do it :')

Please do a video on making 3d shapes, and please make it as funny as this talk

Jesus christ this is some next level shit this guy just transformed one of the biggest mathematical problems into an existential one. Now we only need to figure out whether free will exists or not.

@@Cenker23 Since one cannot actively change their preferences and "choose to like" something, one will only ever act according to their preferences.

Have you considered Prozac?

It even beats out the ruby/js WAT talk, which was pretty awesome

Also most horrifying.

Came here to type that exact comment.

Yeah, runs perfect 4k for me!

I just google "powerpoint turing complete" and bam there it was :)

Just to give you a reminder to watch it again.

reminder no. 2

Reminder no. 3

Reminder no. 4

Dennis Grießner I see what you did there. Medal of honor >> Call of Duty

It sure must have taken some serious ingenuity but I doubt that it was created with too much painstaking work. I suspect that the components and animations were assembled procedurally either using VBA or assembling the plaintext contents of the PPT file.

You could try "punching" it

I hear Skyrim works.

Of course you can. I can play Doom on my fucking toaster oven.

This was already posted on r/itrunsdoom. That's why I'm here. Someone please make this thanks

Pretty sure someone just made Doom in Excel so who knows.

So you can run Powerpoint in Linux on Powerpoint, using Wine, and then run Linux on it?

LibreOffice TM™️

Aaah, P = NP

*coughing*

Ahahahahaa *AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA*

"Shows text" *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA*

Tom : (| P |™ TM™)™ Audiences : **laugh**

Next step: Proving the existence of God using PowerPoint

Dude, PowerPoint IS god

It reminded me of this awesome xkcd post xkcd.com/505/

@Lumi Temple os

Motivation: N/A

Enoua5 Same. Microsoft Office 2000 was a weird programming environment

WurstPeterl yup. You could use word to make a web page full of word arts!

We made a "stay inside the path" game which screams at you when you fail

@@NazmusLabs Thats what I used as a little kid. Then my dad introduced me to Microsoft Frontpage xD Good memories :D

@@DatMilu2K Haha, I remember having Office 2000 installed on our 98 machine, and I'd browse through the Office Assistant gallary desperately trying to change "Clipit" (aka Clippy) to one of the other cool looking digital assistants. I'd browse through the MS Office clip gallary looking through sound effects, midi audio, pictures, and cliparts, but for a long time, I'd be disappointed because every time I'd try to insert a new clip or audio, or aanimated GIF, most of the time, I'd have clippy say "hey, you wanna install this?" I'd click yes, and Clippy would ask me to Insert to Office 2000 CD-ROM in the drive... I didn't have an Office 2000 CD-ROM. So many cool stuff were teasing me that I couldn't get... Then one day, I noticed my dad having the Office 2000 CD, and my childhood dream came true. It was as if I just saw a disc for my favorite game, especially since clippy had been teasing me over the years. Now, I could actually insert the disc, and see what happened! I did, and...WOW. The Windows 95 startup sound played. It was awesome. Then, I opened word, right-clicked on Clippy and proceded to browse the Office Assistant gallary. I picked my number one on the list. "The Dot". It was a red bouncy ball. I clicked OK. Clippy asked if I wanted to install it. I said yes. My heart was pouding, my mind racing. Will this work. After years of desperately waiting and thinking I'd never be able to play with all these goodies staring at me...is today the day it will finally work?? Clippy started the install procedure. So far it's going as it's supposed to. The installation starts, and as soon as the progress bar would appear, I'd be prompted for the CD. What about now? Will it work? Oh no, what if dad had the wrong CD. Is this even the right disc? I mean it seems like hundreds of features in all these Office apps keep asking for the same CD? How can one CD hold so many stuff?? The progress bar started moving. It's working. Oh my GOD...IT'S WORKING!!! My life is complete. Clippy said it's goodbies in a bicycle. But this time, he isn't going because I quit word. Oh no no no. He left so "The Dot" can appear. And boy did I spend the rest of that day being high a years long childhood wish coming true. I could install any assistant I wanted!! I could insert any clip from the clip glarry. Music, audio, animations, the possibility for my creative pursuit seemed endless right now. BUT WAIT....WHAT....WHAAAA... NO... IT CANNOT BE! SAY IT ISN'T TRUE!! Am I dead and in heaven already? Microsoft Office 2000 has a SECOND DISC? A Disc 2? If Disc 1 contained so many stuff...oh my what is in store in a second Office 2000 disc?? More Assistants? New apps?? I hear the Windows 95 chime once again> Office 2000 Disc 2 would usher in a new era of my childhood digital creativity carrer. The clip gallary grow exponentially. Hundreds of new animated Gifs, music, sound effects, pictures. Now stickers. And my new favorite Office App (after PowerPoint). I found my childhood creativity app come to life in Disc 2. Microsoft Publisher 2000. It was more than I ever could hope for. Combined with the new assets, I found a creative goldmine. A childhood photoshop and "Adobe stock" for kids of the 90s. This would be my creative workflow for the next two years. TL:DR And then I grew up and used Photoshop.

more like a complete developer enviroment

He confirmed that you can solve all computational problems with powerpoint. It means that we can finally emulate old games on powerpoint, or make a universe simulator within powerpoint. We don't need to make supercomputers for that anymore, you can have your very own universe simulator at home. And fuck it, if you're really bored, why not just emulate Linux on your Powerpoint and run the universe simulator by loading it in Powerpoint via Wine. Or just run Powerpoint in Powerpoint. We can do everything With Powerpoint

I believe so.

That’d be brilliant! Try mining bitcoin in PowerPoint!

You could run Powerpoint inside Powerpoint inside Powerpoint inside...

that's the super power point turing machine

LOL I did that too :D

Humblebrag

I wish I was that smart when I was 12. I'm not even that smart now! :(

oh my god, im glad to hear im not the only one who did that

He totally would

are you disappointed?

@@Drawoon Absolutely not. I'm amazed

the crowd when tom explaining seriously: "dude this is funny af" the crowd when tom gives a joke: "haha I don't get it"

PowerPoint 2016 will give you the best experience running the TM. 2013 probably works just as well. I tested it on 2007 and it works for a few clicks, then gets very glitchy. Haven't tried 2010. PowerPoint for Mac probably wont work as well. LibreOffice won't cut it.

how about Microsoft Office 2003

@@tomwildenhain Then you can already scratch off the "Works on all commercially viable OSs"

ok... you bought a computer, then you install minecraft, create a computer in it using redstone, create a 64 bit computer, install powerpoint, run powerpoint, use powerpoint to create turing machine, then run turing machine in powerpoint. so you've run turing machine, inside powerpoint, inside a computer, inside minecraft, inside a computer.