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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace, Babbage & the Analytical Engine

on YouTube 37m
Talkat Lambda Days 2017 · 2017-02-09..02-10· [large-language-models]

speaker

name:Sydney Padua
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/fYY8uIWKDcI
slides:none on file

summary

Shows that Ada actually writes machine programs and long footnotes proposing computation beyond arithmetic, and that Babbage’s Analytical Engine contains a real mechanical CPU with memory and punch‑card I/O. Explains the three card types — number, variable, operation — and cites a Bernoulli‑number routine. Demonstrates building working models and visualisations, notes Babbage never builds the full engine while the Difference Engine is later reconstructed, and points to 2017 Science Museum digitisation of the papers.

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chapters (42)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:25Is Sydney a programmer
  3. 0:38A jungle book
  4. 0:56Computer history 101
  5. 1:26Ada Lovelace Day
  6. 1:48Ada Lovelace
  7. 2:32Charles Babbage
  8. 3:35The Analytical Engine
  9. 5:11Babbage
  10. 5:44Bernoulli Numbers Program
  11. 6:23Steampunk
  12. 6:37Avengers
  13. 8:07Footnotes
  14. 8:33Google Books
  15. 9:13The Babbage
  16. 9:58The Average
  17. 10:17Punch Magazine 1851
  18. 10:50New York Mirror 1833
  19. 11:15Babbages Error Popup
  20. 11:46Queen Victoria
  21. 12:20Close friends
  22. 12:45Babbage Lovelace
  23. 13:03Analytical Engine
  24. 13:24George Eliot
  25. 13:43The Machine
  26. 14:42Babbage Plans
  27. 15:32Mechanical Language
  28. 16:05A Beautiful Plan
  29. 16:34The Difference Engine
  30. 18:36A Steam Engine
  31. 19:21The Difficulty in Explanation
  32. 19:51Why I Made These Models
  33. 20:57How It Works
  34. 24:52Addressing Cards
  35. 25:03Variable Cards
  36. 25:46Operations Cards
  37. 29:38Models
  38. 30:38Babbage and Lovelace
  39. 32:22Augustus de Morgan
  40. 34:20General Computing
  41. 35:14Research
  42. 35:29The Documents

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