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geeal ◴[] No.43960034[source]
Advances in computing sciences were not accomplished by investment strategies and nondisclosure agreements. It was accomplished by dedicated professional and academics with the highest levels of integrity and transparency. So your post comes at a critical time where parties are jumping to the bandwagon of AI.
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zmgsabst ◴[] No.43960139[source]
Computer were invented at a lab funded by the military for applied math, with some guys showing up to run mystery calculations over night when the scientists hired to the project were gone.
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mrkeen ◴[] No.43960206[source]
Why didn't they get their usual 9-5ers to do the job? Why bother getting the guy who'd published the computing paper in academia in 1936 to come work at Bletchley in 1937?
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1. zmgsabst ◴[] No.43979149[source]
I was responding to the person above me who said:

> not investment strategy

> highest levels of transparency

Your comment makes my point, again:

Computers only happened when academics transitioned to programs with investment plans to accomplish a goal — steeped in secrecy. Before that, it was just thought experiments.

Both at Bletchley park (for some innovations) and the naval lab for general purpose computers.