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19: 315,000 obsolete index cards

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Is That Something That Computers Would Do Today?

It's not like one person. This is a thing that would be done by a computer today. So when you're thinking about language and translation, that's a good avenue to go down to ciphering. But it's not that it would tell me in French or something. I mean, none of us have said library catalog. It's just a library catalog or something like that. Something about the words, something a computer would do today.

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