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"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"
by howeyc 13y ago
"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"
- streetnigga 13y ago"Look at this! If I mash gibberish into a search engine it returns the same."
- untog 13y ago...but Google does do that.
- KiwiCoder 13y agoThe better part of this quote is the sentiment that follows; I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
- vacri 13y agoAnd yet the commentor is claiming that the other tool is able to produce useful output from those inputs.
- comex 13y agoThat would be more analogous to Google correcting input for perceived spelling errors. Putting in garbage as a query isn't wrong, it has a well-defined answer for the vast majority of garbage.
- enneff 13y ago"correct" is not equivalent to "helpful"