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by melony 1557 days ago
They also downplayed Konrad Zuse in history because his story wasn't written by the WWII victors.
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jmeister 1557 days ago
Schmidhuber on Zuse v Turing:

(Turing oversold)[https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/turing-oversold.html]

(Turing: Keep his work in perspective)[https://www.nature.com/articles/483541b]

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jhbadger 1557 days ago
And this is particularly sad because unlike other German scientists of the time who were lauded like Wernher von Braun, Zuse never joined the Nazi party despite the pressure to do so.
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