{"id":6745,"date":"2012-12-26T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2012-12-26T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:06:31","slug":"studying-finite-automata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/studying-finite-automata\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Finite Automata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\/questions\/14811\/what-is-the-enlightenment-im-supposed-to-attain-after-studying-finite-automata\">This question<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\">Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange<\/a> generated some good answers (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nst021\">Nicolas Seriot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/cstheory.stackexchange.com\/questions\/14811\/what-is-the-enlightenment-im-supposed-to-attain-after-studying-finite-automata\"><p>So &ldquo;why&rdquo; exactly do we study deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata (DFA\/NFAs)?<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question on the Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange generated some good answers (via Nicolas Seriot): So &ldquo;why&rdquo; exactly do we study deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata (DFA\/NFAs)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[263,71],"class_list":["post-6745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-theory","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6746,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}