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Re: Mathematical tables and machine computation c.1932
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Dec 8, 10:45 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Dec 8, 10:45 -0800
Human calculators and human computers... Reading an article on the Galilean satellites (for the longitude thread), I came upon a quote from the transition era from the 1980s. Clearly the human "computers" should have unionized before those A.I. beasts conquered the world!
Damn you, Steve Wozniak (and that other Steve)! You took our jobs!!
:)
Frank Reed