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@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-12 12:17:00

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Ada Lovelace – Mutter aller Programmiernerds
Ada Lovelace hatte weit vor dem ersten modernen Computer die Idee für ein erstes Programm. Sie ehren wir in einem keinen Nerdquiz. Knobeln Sie mit!

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Ada Lovelace – Mutter aller Programmiernerds
Ada Lovelace hatte weit vor dem ersten modernen Computer die Idee für ein erstes Programm. Sie ehren wir in einem keinen Nerdquiz. Knobeln Sie mit!

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 19:23:23

What computer programmers look like; Ada Lovelace in 1843. petapixel.com/2026/01/16/only-

An oval black and white photograph of a woman in a Black-and-floral V-neck dress with an elaborately-decorated hairdo. Her expression is sad.
@tarah@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11 14:41:04

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.

C. Hollings et al. / Historia Mathematica 44 (2017) 202-231 203 1. Introduction On 21 January 1844, the English mathematician Augustus De Morgan wrote a confidential letter to Lady Noel Byron about her 28-year-old daughter, Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, who De Morgan had tutored as a private pupil in various areas of advanced mathematics for about eighteen months in the early 1840s. In his letter, while he was at pains to stress that “I have never expressed to Lady Lovelace my op…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 22:25:58

HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics (Berkeley Lovelace Jr/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/health/health-news
memeorandum.com/251217/p119#a2