However, I'm not counting on his Santa to bring me any prezzies this christmas...
I said:" I was annoyed" Santa" Where were you annoyed?" Me: "My location is irrelevant" Santa: "Is it nice in irrelevant?" (Paraphrasing this one, I can't remember the actual text) Me: "irrelevant isn't a location, it is not important to the discussion" Santa: "What is a location it is not important to the discussion it is not important to the discussion?"
This is a reconstructed machine for solving complex mathematical equations, originally made in 1934 by mathematician Douglas Hartree and his student Arthur Porter from the construction toy Meccano. It was one of the first electromechanical computers. It used the movement of shafts and gears as the physical analogue of the mathematical relationships. Later digital computers electronically manipulated the numerical values themselves.
I went for an interview at Manchester Uni compting dept when I was doing my A levels, and they were restoring an old Meccano analogue differential machine. Mid late 70s
Ha!
ReplyDeletePretty funny!
ReplyDeleteGenius.
ReplyDeleteFar better than my Alan Turing confectionary idea.
Thousands call for Turing apology
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ReplyDeleteNeat!
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ReplyDelete{{{claps}}} Bravo!
ReplyDelete(looking forward to the Turing MP4 media player)
Ooh... that's elegant.
ReplyDelete(maybe not so great for displaying shift register operation though :-)
http://www.metafilter.com/98834/Can-I-have-a-Turing-Test-for-Christmas
ReplyDeleteNice link!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm not counting on his Santa to bring me any prezzies this christmas...
I said:" I was annoyed"
Santa" Where were you annoyed?"
Me: "My location is irrelevant"
Santa: "Is it nice in irrelevant?" (Paraphrasing this one, I can't remember the actual text)
Me: "irrelevant isn't a location, it is not important to the discussion"
Santa: "What is a location it is not important to the discussion it is not important to the discussion?"
...
{See recent post about talking computers into blowing 'emselves up}
ReplyDeleteWhy?
ReplyDeleteSOunded like you'd put it into an infinte loop
ReplyDeleteNo... I said "Why?"
ReplyDeleteSOunded like you'd put it into an infinte loop
ReplyDeleteEtc. :-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEAxoknHgo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1773
ReplyDeleteMeccano differential analyser by Douglas Hartree/
ReplyDeleteThis is a reconstructed machine for solving complex mathematical equations, originally made in 1934 by mathematician Douglas Hartree and his student Arthur Porter from the construction toy Meccano. It was one of the first electromechanical computers. It used the movement of shafts and gears as the physical analogue of the mathematical relationships. Later digital computers electronically manipulated the numerical values themselves.
I went for an interview at Manchester Uni compting dept when I was doing my A levels, and they were restoring an old Meccano analogue differential machine.
ReplyDeleteMid late 70s