she understood that the analytical engine/mechanical computer could be used symbolically, way beyond the numerical calculations that babbage built it for.
she foresaw how powerful that could be. when she was dying (of ovarian cancer), she said i would give all the days i have left for just three days a hundred years from now.
This was like the first thing we learned in history of computers in university.
I would have guessed you’d have learned about Charles Babbage first
Okay I don’t have the time to research this, but if this is the reason Adafruit is called Adafruit then that is fucking sick
It is indeed. It’s based off the founders online username “LadyAda” which was an homage to Ada Lovelace. The founder is Limor Fried, she’s pretty awesome.