Did you know that in English there are about 30 different meanings of the affirmative word yes?
A story to illustrate:
A man comes home from his work, says hello to the wife, installs himself in a seat with a newspaper and a drink.
Two options:
The wife says: " Darling, are you going to mow the lawn? "
The wife says: " Darling, I'm taking a bath will you come and rub my back? "
In both cases the man will say " yes ".
The moment we have a computer who understands the difference between the two affirmations, we have something that is close to an ideal computer.
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Computers nowadays can be very helpful, but also can be used to steel information, terrorism, and other crimes.
If we do make better computers, they will eventually fall in the wrong hands, and be a more efficient tool for bad
Well, the whole reason computers exist as we know them, is because of the second world war (namely Colossus and ENIAC).
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