r/STEMcelgrippysockjail • u/creeper6530 • Aug 26 '26

Discussion Sorry if this is a repost

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u/Lesbihun_ Aug 26 '26

she was Ada Lovelace's tutor so she also helped programmers become a thing

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 26 '26

Because surely if not for Ada Lovelace we would have computers but no programmers

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

i mean, you can claim that for all scientific breakthroughs. whenever there is a big discovery, there is usually several people with similair ideas in the same timeframe, but one was just the fastest or the most polished. so we either celebrate Ada, or we don't celebrate anybody.

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 26 '26

P.S.

> Alan Turing did know about Charles Babbage's work later in his life, but there is no evidence he was aware of it when he formulated his foundational universal machine concept

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

i don't see a problem? i said in my comment that people will often independently discover things when the conditions are primed.

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 26 '26

I'm fine with celebrating her work but "helped programmers become a thing" is a stretch.

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

she was a mathematician that wrote programs for a planned computation machine (that didn't end up being built). programming was a discipline of mathematics for a very long time. she was a pioneer of the field. i don't understand why this bothers you so much.

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 26 '26

It bothers me because modern computers and programming were developed entirely without knowledge or influence of Ada's work, by Alan Turing

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

okay but im telling you that this happens pretty dang often, and there is a consensus of honouring the first person. it's not like people don't know of and value alan turing as well for his massive contributions. 

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 26 '26

Explain to me in which way she helped programmers become a thing. Which of her contributions lead to today's existence of programmers.

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 27 '26

Are you going to respond?

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u/BenedictusTheWise Aug 27 '26

Username checks out, although it should probably be Rude-Sealion8823 but maybe that's too on the nose.

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u/Key-Seaworthiness517 Aug 30 '26

Wait, this dude's literally just AI lmao, what kind of response is "Its an otter"? Who defends an auto-generated name and wrong?

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 27 '26

Its an otter. Although I fail to see how I was being rude, I provided a factual argument for my opinion. I'm not rude just because I disagree with you.

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u/Mangoh1807 Aug 27 '26

How you felt typing that LMAO

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u/Rude-Pangolin8823 Aug 27 '26

Apparently facts don't matter so long as its glazing a beloved historic figure

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u/linux_transgirl Aug 26 '26

Okay fine, we wouldn't have the ada programming language

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u/RSdabeast Aug 26 '26

I’m a scientist

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

ur momma's a scientist ! ohhhhhh

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u/RSdabeast Aug 26 '26

she was a teacher

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u/throwawaypassingby01 Aug 26 '26

lmao i was right

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u/Key-Confusion1328 Aug 26 '26

*Inserts the man who raised 5 scientists

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u/RSdabeast Aug 26 '26

let's not insert men into this. men insert themselves into too many things already.

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u/creeper6530 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

My grandmother is/was Candidate of Sciences (Soviet PhD) and still raised multiple engineer children and grandchildren. Try harder lmao

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u/diadlep Aug 26 '26

Tbis is true for a surprising number of things