The Hardware Lottery
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The Hardware Lottery
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#2All images are broken
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#3All images are broken
It’s a well-known paper. The link at the top to the PDF works well https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489
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#4Quote:
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.
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#5There 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
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#6Quote: 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
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#7Quote: 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.
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#8Earlier 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.