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Tim Stanley : We live in the digital age, but it's not obvious why a system that operates using discrete chunks of information would be good at modeling our continuous, analog world.
He says for millennia humans have used analog computing devices to understand and predict the ebbs and flows of nature.
Stanley: Digital computers were easier to program and often more accurate than analog machines.
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