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Rationally Speaking #233 - Clive Thompson on "The culture of coding, and how it’s changing the world"

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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Computers Are Amazing at Doing Things Repetitively Over and Over Again

When you're learning to program a computer for the first time, one of the things you quickly discover is that computers are really good at doing the things that humans are really bad at and vice versa. In contrast, computers are amazing at doing things repetitively over and over again with great precision in precise timing. "All these repetitive tasks that I have to do in daily life could be better done by a piece of software," he says.

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