A stretch from bugs to priors and biases
Tom Standage follows a nice random walk from (transcription) bugs to prior biases in AI… Very much a big a conceptual stretch, but, hey, anything that brings back Babbage-Lovelace and programming the first Turing machine (the analytical engine before Turing) is a lot of fun — -thank you Thiago for the link.

Originally published at http://sciber.blogspot.com on November 3, 2019.