babbage

Mathematician, computer inventor, organ grinder hater.

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@dfliesen Obviously not a Babbage Time Machine. When I build a time machine, it works. I mean, If I build ...

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The Difference Engine is astoundingly good at keeping out people who would hijack an account.

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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Phew. I need a nap.

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If only twitter ran on a Difference Engine. I'd have to deal with far fewer attempts to hijack my account.

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Have you seen my brain?

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Happy birthday to me! 227 years young.

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What's your favorite classical ruins?

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@dbabbage Account not for sale if that's what you want. Who else will stand up for computation?

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Me great, great, great granddaughter is married to @AusAmbUSA. Wonder what crime my kids committed.

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#smartphones? They should have called them smart difference engines.

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Ruffians and scoundrels try to hijack my account. Bona fortuna, my computer prowess truly surpasses theirs.

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Saw @ImitationGame Would it have killed them to throw some love my way? I was all up in the computer thing decades before Turing.

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So for a 10th Bridgewater Treatise, I'm thinking something about sexy computer scientists as proof that there are gods.

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That Turing guy ain't got nothing on me. OK, actually, he's a cool guy. I'm still bitter about the movie deal.

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How come I don't get a movie starring Sherlock?

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Now if only they'd pardon me for that mix-up with the organ grinder and the monkey.

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It's all about the clocks.

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Looking at lighthouses.

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Turing ain't got nothing on me.

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It's all about the computations.