Comment on Ada Lovelace

• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.)

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  • Zagorath@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • Zagorath@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You said

        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.

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