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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In the late 1970s (I was a kid) the computer is always right was a common sarcastic parody of all the people who actually believed it.

We’d discoverin the 1980s it was possible to have missing data, insufficient data or erroneous data.

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turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a sentiment at least as old as the first things that we now call computers.

On two occasions I have been asked, “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.

—Charles Babbage

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As if humans can magically make correct decisions with incorrect information lmao. So true.
  
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