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The Hardware Lottery
- Ginop 4mo agoAll images are broken
- arjie 4mo agoIt’s a well-known paper. The link at the top to the PDF works well https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489
- b3lvedere 4mo agoQuote: 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 4mo agohe just meant did you cheat and put the answers inside the machine before the experiment began
- Y_Y 4mo agoI am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a comment.
- zephen 4mo agoI 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
- ktallett 4mo agoThere 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