#charlesbabbage

Contemplate chads: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/05/26/do-not-fold-spindle-or-mutilate/

Wrestling with reason: https://roughlydaily.com/2025/07/07/ive-been-discovering-much-to-my-dismay-that-im-not-a-criminal-mastermind-or-anything-im-just-brute-force-and-my-powers-in-no-way-include-super-intelligence-which-kind-of-pisses-me-off/

Computing, as we know it today, is the result of centuries of intellectual development, but its history begins long before electronic computers and modern lines of code. The first traces of computation date back to the 10th century BC, when the Babylonians, and possibly even the Chinese and Indians, used rudimentary tools to perform arithmetic operations.

Anyway, I did enjoy the book, although the long chapters with a deep dive into Lord Byron's entire childhood and life was unnecessary. The author also states repeatedly that Lord Byron cast a long shadow over Ada's life, even though her mother left him when Ada was a year old. The author never flushes out this statement and leaves the reader confused as to what he meant.

No ano de 1821, as engrenagens da Revolução Industrial ganharam impulso com a visão visionária de Charles Babbage, um matemático inglês destemido. Nesse ano marcante, Babbage concebeu a "Difference Engine", uma máquina de calcular movida a vapor que transcendia as fronteiras do pensamento matemático da época. Esse feito revolucionário não apenas redefiniu a maneira como números eram processados, mas também lançou as bases para o futuro da computação. O legado de Babbage ecoa até os dias de hoje, pois suas ideias pioneiras pavimentaram o caminho para a era digital, transformando a maneira como interagimos com a informação e moldando o tecido da sociedade moderna. Leia mais em https://techtimecapsule.blogspot.com/2024/01/1821-o-matematico-ingles-charles-babbage.html

The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time. Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The International Charles Babbage Society (later the Charles Babbage Institute) took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers. #charlesbabbage (at Uno Business Park by McCoy Pal's Infrastructure Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX7nLpzIM5n/?utm_medium=tumblr

Charles Babbage. 1791 - 1871. Sometimes referred to as the ‘father of the computer’, the idea of a ‘digital programmable computer’ came from him. 2021 will be the 150th anniversary of his death so I have decided the ‘theme’ of 2021 will be Charles Babbage. What this means at the moment is currently a work in progress but I aim to have at least three-to-five posts a month centred around Babbage or one of the areas he worked in throughout his life. #onthisday #charlesbabbage #computer #history #knowledge #learning #learnthroughsocialmedia #150thanniversary #computerscience https://www.instagram.com/p/CJefTe6BSVG/?igshid=166q3a086rmeo