How a Terrible Father Inspired the World's First Programmer

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  • Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2024

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  • @Newsthink
    @Newsthink  Год назад +9

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  • @rifleman1002
    @rifleman1002 Год назад +138

    The Computer Science community has the utmost respect for Lady Lovelace. Considering she basically invented modern Computer Science, she deserves the recognition. Computer Science also has her name on one of the most prestigious awards in all of Computer Science and Mathematics. The Ada Lovelace award. Byron was a fantastic poet, but without his daughter, the modern world cannot exist.

    • @greenbee6902
      @greenbee6902 Год назад +8

      She didn't invent computer science and arguably wasn't even a programmer because no one knows how much of the program was her work and what was added by Babbage. The program never ran either because It was supposed to be a demo for Babbage's theoretical computer, the Analytical Engine (which never got built). She is mostly known for her extensive notes surrounding computers conceived by her mentor Babbage. Theres a fair bit of historical revisionism around her for obvious reasons.

    • @rifleman1002
      @rifleman1002 Год назад +10

      @@greenbee6902 for programming an actual analytical machine, she was. However before then programming was not for math work but actually for looms. It had punch cards That would instruct the loom to stitch a certain pattern into the fabrics. So for analytical work, she was the first. Babbage was building the machine but needed help in actually running the thing. It actually was being built but never completed because the British government just saw no use for it.

    • @greenbee6902
      @greenbee6902 Год назад +3

      ​@@rifleman1002 You are confusing machines with computers, punch cards for computers would come decades later. Babbage didn't need help running his analytical engine, there was nothing to run. It was a theoretical computer. He conceived it 5 years before he met Ada, back then she was still learning more basic mathematics. He had already wrote early programs for it before he met Ada but they weren't as extensive. One could argue she was a better programmer than Babbage, but I dont believe she was the first.

    • @EpicMisterB
      @EpicMisterB Год назад

      @@greenbee6902 a machine is a computer if it implements and acts a computational model (search up chomsky hierarchy)

    • @greenbee6902
      @greenbee6902 Год назад +8

      @@EpicMisterB dont be pedantic you know which kind of computers im referencing. Otherwise the earliest programmer is much older than Ada or Babbage.

  • @robynsegg
    @robynsegg 10 месяцев назад +5

    For years, one of my many online usernames has been "Lady Byron" (an anagram for "Robyn"). I had no idea that the ACTUAL Lady Byron gave birth to such a fascinating woman! I'm truly humbled! I can't wait to learn more about Ada Lovelace!

  • @shakiMiki
    @shakiMiki Год назад +7

    Fantastic video. Seriously under appreciated. Deserves bigger audience.

  • @sauravagarwal4412
    @sauravagarwal4412 Год назад +23

    Also, NVIDIA has named their Chip architecture after Ada Lovelace. It's called the "Lovelace architecture" .

  • @MeAndMyRoyalEnfield
    @MeAndMyRoyalEnfield Год назад +24

    I would love to know the process that brings you to these topics. This is someone I've never heard of and never would have if it wasn't for you. Thank you.

    • @Newsthink
      @Newsthink  Год назад +11

      Really appreciate you watching someone you've never heard of! Walter Isaacson's book The Innovators inspired me to tell her story

    • @albertobalanza8575
      @albertobalanza8575 Год назад +1

      Im definitely cloning her once the science is perfected ( if I can get her consent, that is... ). No dull topic at Newsthink. Thanks, Madam

  • @cal-native
    @cal-native Год назад +11

    What a wonderful video! I've often thought that mechanical machines that could perform highly complex operations before the era of electronics required the most insight, brilliance and sophistication to conceive.

  • @elkanaajowi9093
    @elkanaajowi9093 Год назад +3

    Why did Charles Babbage refuse the offer from Lovelace?
    Computers could have arrived much faster. Things could have worked out quite smoothly with such a century-ahead mind and connections.

  • @iamprbruh626
    @iamprbruh626 Год назад +13

    Ahhh lady Ada Lovelace, finally getting to know sumthing about her too, and wohhhh it was shocking that lord Byron was her father...

  • @IsraelTitusRaja
    @IsraelTitusRaja 4 месяца назад

    The analytical engineweaves algebraic patteerns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Год назад +12

    Ada Lovelace was a fascinating woman.
    Opium has been around for centuries and gambling also.
    Sorry that her mind was cut short.
    If she could only see what computers can do today.

  • @TheBrothErsBG
    @TheBrothErsBG 8 месяцев назад +1

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
    00:00 *🧠 Ada Lovelace temía heredar la locura de su padre, Lord Byron.*
    01:23 *📚 A pesar de la influencia materna en matemáticas, Ada tuvo un romance y buscó escapar de casa.*
    03:38 *🤝 Influenciada por Somerville y Babbage, Ada contribuyó al "Motor Analítico".*
    05:30 *🖥️ Publicó el primer algoritmo, convirtiéndose en la primera programadora de computadoras.*
    06:25 *💭 Planteó la incapacidad de las máquinas para pensar, contradicha por Turing.*
    08:24 *💔 Afectada por problemas de salud y adicciones, a pesar de su título nobiliario.*
    09:20 *🌟 Reconocida como pionera informática, allanó el camino para la era digital.*
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  • @MonochromaticBlues
    @MonochromaticBlues 9 месяцев назад +1

    God I’m so proud of Ada

  • @egj1975
    @egj1975 Год назад +7

    Back to great videos (not Apple/Tesla related) is awesome... thanks for this.

  • @ash726
    @ash726 Год назад

    I just learned about this lady and I seriously want to watch a full length movie about her now!

  • @juanitoqueintin5908
    @juanitoqueintin5908 Год назад +1

    Jaw dropping story this is amazing

  • @adaeterno
    @adaeterno 4 месяца назад

    Interesting. I have a soviet book from 1990 called Applied programming in Ada language.

  • @piotrmalewski8178
    @piotrmalewski8178 Год назад +5

    Why do everyone keep repeating the same blatant lie? Because that's the current agenda?
    Of course she was not the first computer programmer. What a ludicrous thing to say that the first programmer would not be person who created the logic and design of a computer in the first place?
    Yes, she does deserve a recognition, but she was not the first programmer.

  • @zhizn_snake
    @zhizn_snake 7 месяцев назад

    A.D.A. is the name of the AI in the mech that you pilot in the video game series Zone of the Enders, as a homage to her.

  • @educhann
    @educhann Год назад +1

    thanks for this gem

  • @prejubaniya6178
    @prejubaniya6178 5 месяцев назад

    But my teacher teaches us how lady Ada is a assistant of charles babbage but it is not right??

  • @SandyRiverBlue
    @SandyRiverBlue Год назад +1

    I prefer Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull by Lord Byron. A good early view of the madness.

  • @shruti574
    @shruti574 Год назад +3

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    • @samsb6739
      @samsb6739 Год назад

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  • @neilrichardson7454
    @neilrichardson7454 Год назад +3

    Lord forgive me, but I'm more interested in her father. This man was a straight up bad ass. Before the term bad ass existed.😀

    • @educhann
      @educhann Год назад +2

      he could be first ever stepbrother meme.

    • @entanglednerves
      @entanglednerves Год назад

      Naughty America was inspired by actual actions of Lord Byron 😅

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 Год назад +1

      Both the father and the daughter interest me.

  • @jonathanfarley2023
    @jonathanfarley2023 Год назад +1

    Do we know Byron was a terrible father? Or was his wife a terrible mother, practicing parental alienation?

    • @dio8636
      @dio8636 Год назад +2

      That's a great question! The more I learn about her, the more I wonder about this. Especially since she was so fascinated by him. But then, he also moved to a different country when she was a baby, never came back to see her, and died when she was 8. I feel like he was more of a myth to her than a real rather. Just wonder why he never came back. That might have been her mother, either alienating him because she was a piece of shit or because she genuinely wanted to protect Ada.

    • @jonathanfarley2023
      @jonathanfarley2023 Год назад

      @@dio8636 I know little about Byron except a few of his poems and what I gleaned from the (fictional) play "Arcadia." In that play (which has character clearly intended to be modeled after Ada Lovelace), playwright Tom Stoppard makes it seem as if it is a big mystery to contemporary scholars why Byron left England.

  • @supersqogito9098
    @supersqogito9098 Год назад +2

    Hi Cindy, how do I contact you directly? I have an original and awesome logic concept I want to share with the world. I received this concept through an epiphany encounter.

  • @ernestabor
    @ernestabor Год назад +4

    Such a history about an ingenious lady who later became the first programmer

    • @satouhikou1103
      @satouhikou1103 Год назад +1

      Charles Babbage was actually the first programmer.

    • @merieem88
      @merieem88 Год назад

      ​@@satouhikou1103no

  • @lauriewallmark
    @lauriewallmark 11 месяцев назад

    Read more about this amazing woman in my picture book biography ADA BYRON LOVELACE AND THE THINKING MACHINE..

  • @check-inmedia3891
    @check-inmedia3891 Год назад

    Thank you for this video and congratulations on reaching 600 k subcribers

  • @ahmedp8009
    @ahmedp8009 Год назад +8

    Nvidia RTX 4090 approves.

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus 9 месяцев назад

    Ada :-)

  • @davidmacphee3549
    @davidmacphee3549 Год назад +2

    Next video, 600K Subs?

  • @dingusdangus9299
    @dingusdangus9299 10 месяцев назад +1

    >made """"""programs"""""" that were never tested
    >for a device that was never invented
    >for a device that wasn't even supposed to do anything
    >for a device that was just going to be a more complicated version of already existing devices that already had "programing"
    Damn the world just wouldn't be the same without her contributions.

    • @juliandlt_
      @juliandlt_ 9 месяцев назад +1

      >george lucas made """"stories"""" that were never real
      >for a setting that wasnt possible
      >for a character that was never born
      >for a plot that was just gonna be a more complicated version of other stories that already had "science fiction"

  • @happyatheists9361
    @happyatheists9361 Год назад +2

    Kim k(hoooo) kind a pplz r not the perfect womens(its opposite),this kind a womans are the best women to admire