The Digesting Duck
The duck test, designed to show that if there is abundant evidence, there is no reason to doubt the obvious conclusion, goes something like this: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The Frenchman, Jacques de Vaucanson, went to enormous lengths to demonstrate that his masterpiece of robotic engineering, the gold-plated copper Digesting…
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