From: "25.BX943" <25BZ493@nada.net>
Subject: Re: Not only a language...
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:23:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fsydnfUTh7ZmhYb_nZ2dnUU7-fnNnZ2d@earthlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed697900-5280-4f3f-8d2e-4c33e26fd83cn@googlegroups.com>
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.
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 [this message]
2022-02-27 7:55 ` Robin Vowels
2022-03-08 1:55 ` 25.BX943
2022-03-09 21:06 ` Robin Vowels
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