The Hardware Lottery

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by intelkishan

b3lvedere
31d
Quote:
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.
1. pocksuppet
  21d
  he just meant did you cheat and put the answers inside the machine before the experiment began
  1. Y_Y
    11d
    I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a comment.
    zephen
    01d
    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
11d
All images are broken
1. arjie
  01d
  It’s a well-known paper. The link at the top to the PDF works well https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489
ktallett
01d
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