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Muro deGrizeco<p>One great thing about getting older, is that stupid and unlikely things seem to keep coming true! </p><p>For example:</p><p>"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."</p><p>...and I think with AI, we've reached a similar level of confusion.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>babbage</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/differenceengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>differenceengine</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Modern Computing’s Roots or The Manchester Baby - In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the fir... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/modern-computings-roots-or-the-manchester-baby/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/03/19/modern</span><span class="invisible">-computings-roots-or-the-manchester-baby/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/manchesterbaby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manchesterbaby</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manchester</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vonneumann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vonneumann</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>babbage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/eniac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eniac</span></a></p>
Bruce Sterling @bruces<p>*I'll probably die before amybody figures this out, but that's nowhere near so painful as trying and failing to do it <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnalyticalEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnalyticalEngine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/steampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steampunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babbage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLovelace</span></a></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@bruces/the-mysterious-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@bruces/the-mysteri</span><span class="invisible">ous-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@si_irini" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>si_irini</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.space/author/2ndstar/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>2ndStar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tooting.ch/@SilviaMarton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SilviaMarton</span></a></span> </p><p>What is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialGeneralIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialGeneralIntelligence</span></a>? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a> <br>(3a/n)</p><p>...chess and go players. And as we’ve discussed before on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babbage</span></a>, they’re tackling some of the biggest challenges in science, like predicting the three dimensional structures of proteins. One of the company’s goals from the outset, though, has been to build a system that would achieve AGI. And recently they’ve been 👉 trying to formalise what that actually means.👈 The...</p>
Vivienne Dunstan<p>Browsing the newly published details of Charles Darwin's library more. Impressed to see novels in there - that's relatively unusual for a private library of this era. Many Dickens, many Gaskell. He also had works by Babbage, Mary Somerville and my g..uncle-in-law Charles Maclaren. <a href="http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_</span><span class="invisible">Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CharlesDarwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDarwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Novels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babbage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dickens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CharlesBabbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesBabbage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CharlesDickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesDickens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ElizabethGaskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethGaskell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaskell</span></a></p>
Kristian Harstad<p>Did You Know...</p><p>Charles <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Babbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babbage</span></a>, the inventor of the first <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a>, was an <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/occultist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occultist</span></a> who tried to summon <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Satan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Satan</span></a> with his own blood, among other things.</p><p>Who knew??</p>
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