Hooray for the Lady who might have written the first algorithm! She needs more attention.
Other: Charles Babbage (sp?) and the Analytic Engine: perhaps our first real computer. Imagine a steampunk world where all our devices were powered by huge mechanical chunks and chonks.
I saw a video of a constructed Analytical Engine (they couldn’t manufacture the parts to the specs required in Babbage’s time) donated to a Computer History museum by an early Microsoft exec. Didn’t find it on a quick search, but it’s a huge thing driven by a physical crank.
I can’t imagine a more advanced mind. I mean, maybe Einstein, but we have proof of her discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world! (I mean, they kinda are, but you get what I mean.)
I’m not sure what you mean. Einstein’s theories are not without proof or purely abstract. Without them, satellites’ clocks would get noticeably out of sync with earth’s, which would (among other things) render GPS absolutely useless.
Ada Lovelace. What else would I mean? She (arguably) wrote the first algorithm. (Oh shit, a woman is responsible for all social media, let’s get them! /s)
maybe Einstein, but we have proof of [Lovelace’s] discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world!
The implication behind this is that we don’t have proof of Einstein’s discoveries and his are abstract in the contemporary world. But neither of those are true.
Hooray for the Lady who might have written the first algorithm! She needs more attention.
Other: Charles Babbage (sp?) and the Analytic Engine: perhaps our first real computer. Imagine a steampunk world where all our devices were powered by huge mechanical chunks and chonks.
I saw a video of a constructed Analytical Engine (they couldn’t manufacture the parts to the specs required in Babbage’s time) donated to a Computer History museum by an early Microsoft exec. Didn’t find it on a quick search, but it’s a huge thing driven by a physical crank.
This woman wrote computer programs while computers were still almost purely theoretical. Fucking mind-blowing.
I can’t imagine a more advanced mind. I mean, maybe Einstein, but we have proof of her discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world! (I mean, they kinda are, but you get what I mean.)
I’m not sure what you mean. Einstein’s theories are not without proof or purely abstract. Without them, satellites’ clocks would get noticeably out of sync with earth’s, which would (among other things) render GPS absolutely useless.
Ada Lovelace. What else would I mean? She (arguably) wrote the first algorithm. (Oh shit, a woman is responsible for all social media, let’s get them! /s)
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The implication behind this is that we don’t have proof of Einstein’s discoveries and his are abstract in the contemporary world. But neither of those are true.