A machine which thinks puto

The defeat by a computer of a human champion at the game of Go has caused much excitement. But computers used to be human themselves, writes Trevor Timpson. Virgil's Georgics - depictions of country life - speak of tidying vines by pruning fingitque putando. The playwright Terence left one of the most famous Latin quotations - I am a man and I think nothing human foreign to me humani… nihil alienum puto.

The link in sense seems to be tidying, setting to rights, balancing an account, reckoning up. The historian Tacitus wrote "if the number of soldiers is counted" si numerus militum putatur. Computare com- means "together" also meant calculate - Pliny's Natural History tells how the breadth of Asia should be "rightly calculated" sane computetur.

And English has used "compute" for centuries. I wish we had the money. A "computer" used to be a person who did calculations.

In the Edinburgh Weekly Journal advised young married women to know their husbands' income "and be so good a Computer as to keep within it. It was very common for companies and government departments to advertise jobs as "computers" - right up to the time when the word was used for early electronic devices, and in some cases until the s.

One early electronic device was the Atanasoff Berry Computer constructed at Iowa State University between and In his paper proposing the machine, John Atanasoff actually used "computer" in both senses. He noted that "an expert computer" takes eight hours to complete one set of equations. But he also discussed the different mechanical parts of "computers" using the decimal and binary systems. Nein, das glaubt dieser Puto nur. No, that puto only thinks he is. Fick dich, Puto. No, fuck you, puto.

How's this - fuck you, puto. Puto Bumbona is a sweet purple coloured dessert made of sticky rice steamed in bamboo and served with butter and coconut. Sind Sie wegen der Miete hier, Puto? You here for the rent, puto? Did you hear what that puto said about my car? Since you are inside a flash-back, puto n your speed-face so that we re-enter the time machine to travel many years further back.

PUTO ', in case of a floor. Lass es uns durchziehen, puto. Let's do this, puto. Bibingka has a soft spongy texture similar to puto , another Philippine rice cake. Wenn das eine Drohung ist If this is a threat you just made a mistake, puto. The Roman playwright Terence has a sentence I have always liked - Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto - I am a man a human being , nothing human do I think alien to me. Humani nil a me alienum puto.

Ich bin ein Mensch. The club's motto was "Humani nihil a me alienum puto. Ich mag dich, puto. I like you, puto. I like you. Zuletzt doch der Mensch, der ihm die Menschenrechte erteilt: dann kann er in einem unendlich weiteren Sinne als Terenz sagen: humani nihil a me alienum puto , d.