The Hardware Lottery
20 points by intelkishan 2 days ago | 6 comments
  • Ginop 5 hours ago |
    All images are broken
  • b3lvedere 4 hours ago |
    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.

    • pocksuppet 2 hours ago |
      he just meant did you cheat and put the answers inside the machine before the experiment began
      • Y_Y an hour ago |
        I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a comment.
  • ktallett 3 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