From: Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Not only a language...
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:55:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef2f1747-74bd-42a2-ac81-601059f0dafdn@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fsydnfUTh7ZmhYb_nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@earthlink.com>
On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5:24:01 PM UTC+11, 25.BX943 wrote:
> On 2/25/22 11:42 AM, mockturtle wrote:
> > Now also a GPU is named after Ada Lovelace
> > https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-next-generation-ada-lovelace-gpus-are-rumored-to-consume-scary-amounts-of-power/
> That's nice ... but does it have anything to do with
> her thoughts on computing machines ? :-)
>
> Babbage knew how to build a computer - but he was fixated
> on using them to create math tables for navigation and such.
.
That's how it started, but he progressed to develop
an "analytical engine" -- a computer, for which Ada Lovelace
wrote programs.
.
> Lovelace/Byron saw the potential far better - realized that
> anything that could in some way be rendered into numbers
> could be manipulated by computing machines.
>
> Poor Babbage ... he had it right, but the hardware of the
> time was gears and cogs.
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2022-02-25 16:42 Not only a language mockturtle
2022-02-27 6:23 ` 25.BX943
2022-02-27 7:55 ` Robin Vowels [this message]
2022-03-08 1:55 ` 25.BX943
2022-03-09 21:06 ` Robin Vowels
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