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Ada's Algorithm by James Essinger — WisdomDeck honest review

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Ada's Algorithm

by James Essinger

Ada Lovelace, Byron's daughter, and the notes that imagined general-purpose computing a century early. A short, admiring biography.

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you want Babbage's engines in detail.

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Three things you will actually use

Imagination precedes hardware.
Poetical science.
See the general in the specific.

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Read the chapters on the notes.

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Lovelace.

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