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The Hardware Lottery

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Re: The Hardware Lottery

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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.

Re: The Hardware Lottery

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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

Re: The Hardware Lottery

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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.

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

Re: The Hardware Lottery

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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.

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

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

Re: The Hardware Lottery

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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.

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