Ssstephen at 00:19, 7 November 2022

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 Characters in this paper in order of appearance:
 * Sadie Plant
 * Mallory
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 * Man
 * Charles Babbage
-* Lady Byron ("Princess of Parallelograms")
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 * Sophia Frend
 * Moore
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 * the Jacquard loom
 * Weaving
 <pre>Ada Lovelace often described her strange intimacy with death... it was no wonder that she was so attracted to the unfamiliar expanses of mathematical worlds.</pre>
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 Quote from Ada Lovelace. Interesting that she says the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves, as opposed to thread and yarn. Are all machines running simulations? Certainly these two early examples look like they are.
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+Basyle Bouchon and Jacques de Vaucanson were two other inventors in the 18éme siecle who invented punched paper roll and the lathe and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck le Canard Digérateur].

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Characters in this paper in order of appearance:
* Sadie Plant
* Mallory
* Ada Byron ("the Queen of Engines")
* The Prime Minister
* William Gibson
* Bruce Sterling
* Ada Lovelace ("the Queen of Engines")
* The Difference Engine
* Luce Irigaray
* The computer
* The loom
* The patriarchal present
* The end of human history
* Freud
* Woman
* Man
* Charles Babbage
* Lady Byron ("Princess of Parallelograms")
* Sophia Frend
* Moore
* Mary Somerville
* Dr Dionysus Lardner
* The Mechanics Institute
* Menabrea
* The Analytical Engine
* That Brain of mine
* William Carpenter
* The Devil
* Babbage's fairy
* Her three children
* Her husband
* Her mother
* A Snail-Shell
* A Molecular Laboratory
* A.K.
* Morrison
* Morrison
* Jacquard
* Jacquard's cards
* the Jacquard loom
* Weaving

<pre>Ada Lovelace often described her strange intimacy with death... it was no wonder that she was so attracted to the unfamiliar expanses of mathematical worlds.</pre>

This story starts mostly with a character assessment of Ada Lovelace as sadgirl.

<pre>There is no finite line of demarcation which limits the powers of the Analytical Engine. These powers are co-extensive with our knowledge of the laws of analysis itself, and need be bounded only by our acquaintance with the latter.</pre>

Quote from Ada Lovelace. Quite utopian, but I see where the excitement comes from. Outside of a mathematical definition of "limits", there are plenty of limits on the Analytical Engine like quantity of punchcards, computation speed, weight, location, networking capabilities, no USB-C ports, it never existed, etc.

<pre>the Analytical Engine weaves Agebraical patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.</pre>

Quote from Ada Lovelace. Interesting that she says the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves, as opposed to thread and yarn. Are all machines running simulations? Certainly these two early examples look like they are.

Stopped at page 5 for today.

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Ssstephen at 00:19, 7 November 2022