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Matthias Wandel has built a simple computer (an adder) that uses marbles. The story of how he had to add extra pieces of wood to help guide the marbles, so that they wouldn’t bounce out and throw off the computation, reminded me of the apocryphal stories of early programmers having to literally “debug” computers by [...]
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