No one person knows how to build a Boeing 747. But together, Boeing make many 747s. Does anyone know a lab task that probes this kind of distributed representation?
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The computers (who were women) at Bletchley Park had no idea the numbers they were adding was them being a small cog in a great machine.
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Not just adding numbers of course, other smaller-than-the-big-picture tasks were carried out, like: “We had this little pile of what we called sticks,” Pitt-Lewis says. “They were sort of rods with the alphabet on them. http://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/25/bletchley-park-enigma-female-codebreakers_n_6532856.html …
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Yep. About how British computing was mainly done by women until they were pushed out.
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I know some, but I'm sure not all, of this! Thanks for the suggestion!
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I was already, maybe you suggested it in the past? 
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