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+title: "The Humble Finite State Machine"
+
+description: "Finite state machines are somewhat underrated"
+
+date: "2026-05-01"
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+draft: true
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+tags: []
+---
+
+Reading that title I expect roughly one of three responses.
+
+1. What's a Finite State machine
+2. Oh a post about something we talked about in the class that brought up Turing Machines in university, aren't these equivalent to Regex?
+3. Finite state machines are neat for (insert use case) I wonder what this guy has to say about them
+
+The third group maybe being subdivided between people whose use case seems niche and whose use case is clearly not niche.
+
+## What are Finite state machines
+
+## Why I consider them useful
+
+##