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Wow! Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea that she was related to Lord Byron. That is pretty incredible. I just briefly looked it up and it sounds like he was a dirtbag of a dad! Still, super interesting stuff. I also love the quote you shared here. 👏
She used the word science in the quote, but with all the work she did programming Babbage's Analytical Engine, she almost certainly meant that. It makes me wonder what she would have accomplished if she had access to today's computers.
The link you shared has some interesting things in it. I didn't know that despite how bad a person her father was, and that she didn't know him, that she requested to be buried with him. I also hadn't heard the speculation that her programs for the Analytical Engine possibly included horse race gambling predictions.
I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
Haha, the horse race gambling predictions is so out there and seriously cracks me up because we constantly fight spammers who post gambling content on DEV! Please tell me Ada wouldn't have been a casino spammer... 😆 (Kidding, of course!)
But yeah, there was another Ada Lovelace + horse fact in that article that was also super amusing:
At the age of 12, Lovelace conceptualized a flying machine.
After studying the anatomy of birds and the suitability of various materials, the young girl illustrated plans to construct a winged flying apparatus before moving on to think about powered flight. “I have got a scheme,” she wrote to her mother, “to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steamengine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.”
It sounds bizarre and so impractical, but I'm in love with this idea, haha!
The steam engine powered winged horse is awesomely crazy (in a good way), and perhaps an example of what she had in mind by poetical science. Although there are videos on youtube of nearly as bizarre contraptions people actually built in early 1900s in early flying attempts.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea that she was related to Lord Byron. That is pretty incredible. I just briefly looked it up and it sounds like he was a dirtbag of a dad! Still, super interesting stuff. I also love the quote you shared here. 👏
She used the word science in the quote, but with all the work she did programming Babbage's Analytical Engine, she almost certainly meant that. It makes me wonder what she would have accomplished if she had access to today's computers.
The link you shared has some interesting things in it. I didn't know that despite how bad a person her father was, and that she didn't know him, that she requested to be buried with him. I also hadn't heard the speculation that her programs for the Analytical Engine possibly included horse race gambling predictions.
Haha, the horse race gambling predictions is so out there and seriously cracks me up because we constantly fight spammers who post gambling content on DEV! Please tell me Ada wouldn't have been a casino spammer... 😆 (Kidding, of course!)
But yeah, there was another Ada Lovelace + horse fact in that article that was also super amusing:
It sounds bizarre and so impractical, but I'm in love with this idea, haha!
The steam engine powered winged horse is awesomely crazy (in a good way), and perhaps an example of what she had in mind by poetical science. Although there are videos on youtube of nearly as bizarre contraptions people actually built in early 1900s in early flying attempts.