sadrice
sadrice t1_irzbyu1 wrote
Reply to comment by woiturtle in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3
Analog computers are very much a thing, especially around that time period. I suspect “automatic” means you did not have to change the physical wiring to reprogram it.
sadrice t1_ja61sjy wrote
Reply to comment by Doctor_Expendable in TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
Or making a good acronym into a technology.
“So, for our next project, I want to make SHART.”
“What does it do?”
“Uh, something with weird poop noises. Maybe cancer? Cancer research always gets funding…”
Six months later
“Holy shit! It worked!”