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by kristoff_it
2858 days ago
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Great article. In some ways it reminds me of Jonathan Blow's presentation titled "Truth in Game Design" [1] The author is saying that Ada deserves the title of first programmer both because she did publish an elaborate algorithm and because she understood the potential of the Analytical Engine better than Babbage and Menabrea. Jonathan Blow's presentation is more about that second point and how computers (or rather, sufficiently complex dynamical systems) can "give you something back that you didn't put in". System theory is nothing new so it might not be exact equivalent of thinking about engines that can compose music in 1842, but it seems to me that it is not a widespread and well-understood concept as it should be, and that the public opinion is re-discovering it mainly through Deep Learning advancements. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FUtrmO7gI |
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