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Muro deGrizecomurodegrizeco@toad.social
2025-05-18

One great thing about getting older, is that stupid and unlikely things seem to keep coming true!

For example:

"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."

...and I think with AI, we've reached a similar level of confusion.

#babbage #AI #differenceengine

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-03-10

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Adrian SegarASegar
2024-12-14

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Adrian SegarASegar
2024-08-08

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Adrian SegarASegar
2024-07-14

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Adrian SegarASegar
2024-05-15

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Adrian SegarASegar
2024-04-06

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
Kristoffer LawsonSetok@attractive.space
2024-02-28

@verge today I was just wondering why #DifferenceEngine hasn’t been made into anything. Would be amazing visuals.

Adrian SegarASegar
2023-12-05

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

The Difference Engine
The Skeptic's Book of Listsskepticsbookoflists@c.im
2023-10-07

Resale shop find. Not bad for 50 cents!
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#DifferenceEngine
#WilliamGibson
#BruceSterling

Adrian SegarASegar
2023-09-10

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine" tempts me to dream that I'm living in an alternative conference universe…

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Photograph of a reconstruction of a portion of Babbage's DIfference Engine. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubba88xw/ / CC BY 2.0
BerlinFokusberlinfokus@berlin.social
2023-06-14

Wie cool ist das denn bitte. 🤩

"Im Jahr 1822 entwirft der britische Mathematiker #CharlesBabbage den Plan für eine dampfbetriebene #Rechenmaschine. Die „#DifferenceEngine“ ist ihrer Zeit weit voraus – und wäre der erste #Computer der Welt gewesen."

tagesspiegel.de/wissen/heute-v

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-05-30

🤯 when I first learned this method many years ago:

“How It Works: Principle Of The Difference Engines”, Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org/babbage/ho).

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-05-30

“Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200”, IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org/charles-babb).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2020-10-10

"Ada Lovelace: A Visionary Of Computing", History Extra (historyextra.com/period/modern).

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