The Hardware Lottery

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b3lvedere•about 10 hours ago

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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

pocksuppet•about 8 hours ago

he just meant did you cheat and put the answers inside the machine before the experiment began

Y_Y•about 8 hours ago

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a comment.

zephen•about 2 hours ago

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that might lead one to believe that suspicions of malfeasance are never warranted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

Ginop•about 12 hours ago

All images are broken

arjie•about 12 hours ago

It’s a well-known paper. The link at the top to the PDF works well https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489

ktallett•about 10 hours ago

There are far more localised versions of this in research facilities whereby budget, and available hardware is determining the focus of research far more than idea and it being right.

This is where open source hardware is key

The Hardware Lottery

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