一个哲学家的生活片段
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage · 初版 1864 年
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage · 初版 1864 年
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《哲学家生命历程片段》(Passages from the life of a Philosopher)读起来非常长见识。当年我们差一点就变成蒸汽朋克社会了!这里有用 Clojure[0] 和 Python[1] 实现的差分机(Difference Engine)。[0] https://gist.github.com/divs1210/6e388a31d4e0a425efe7…
'Passages from the life of a Philosopher' was a very insightful read. We were this close to becoming a steampunk society! Here's the Difference Engine implemented in Clojure[0] and Pythton[1]. [0] https://gist.github.com/divs1210/6e388a31d4e0a425efe7…
……一开始只是个简单的计算装置,但他深入思考之后,单枪匹马搞出了图灵完备的设计,甚至还给它写了程序。• 看到高德纳(Knuth)对它的有趣引用(见 Russ Cox 的博客文章 https://research.swtch.com/tictactoe “Play Tic-Tac-Toe with…)后,我开始阅读巴贝奇的回忆录《哲学家生命历程片段》(Passages From the Life of a Philosopher,http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?ke...)。
…started with a simple calculating device and, thinking about it more deeply, single-handedly came up with a Turing-complete design and was writing programs for it. • I started reading Babbage's memoirs "Passages From the Life of a Philosopher" (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?ke...) after seeing an intriguing Knuth reference to it (see Russ Cox's blog post https://research.swtch.com/tictactoe "Play Tic-Tac-Toe with…
……一位上议院议员,另一位是下议院议员,提出了这个问题。我实在是无法理解,到底得混乱成什么样的思路才能问出这种问题来。——查尔斯·巴贝奇(Charles Babbage),《哲学家生命历程片段》(1864),第5章“第一号差分机”
…of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage - Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"
……‘往机器里输入错误的数据,能算出正确的结果吗?’……我实在是无法理解,到底得混乱成什么样的思路才能问出这种问题来。——巴贝奇(1864),《哲学家生命历程片段》,第5章“第一号差分机”。你总不能拿着一个专为 PSNR 优化的编码器,然后因为它的 SSIM 表现不好就“挑刺”吧,反之亦然。
…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. --Babbage (1864), Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1" You can't reasonably use an encoder optimized for PSNR and then "ding" it for producing output with bad SSIM, or vice-versa.
……一位上议院议员,另一位是下议院议员,提出了这个问题。我实在是无法理解,到底得混乱成什么样的思路才能问出这种问题来。——查尔斯·巴贝奇,《哲学家生命历程片段》,1864
…of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864
……通常的历史,而且我不觉得这两个例子能证明“事实证明完全不是那么回事”:• 查尔斯·巴贝奇生于 1791 卒于 1871 年,在 80 岁生日前几个月去世。他在 1864 年写下了《哲学家生命历程片段》。• 舍茨(Scheutz)父子制造的瑞典差分机在这些回忆录里有被提及。在当时,它被看作是差分机的小型化/玩具/原型版本……
…usual history and I don't think these two examples establish the "turns out to not be true at all": • Charles Babbage lived 1791–1871, dying a couple of months before his 80th birthday. He wrote his Passages from the Life of a Philosopher in 1864. • The Swedish difference engine, produced by Scheutz father and son, is mentioned in these memoirs. At the time, it was regarded as a smaller-scale/toy/prototype version of the Difference Engine…