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Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
theodp writes: To commemorate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, Google's CS Education in Media Program partnered with YouTube Kids on Happy Birthday Ada! for Computer Science Education Week. For those seeking (much!) more information on The Enchantress of Numbers, Stephen Wolfram has penned a pretty epic blog post, Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace. "Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago today," Wolfram begins. "To some she is a great hero in the history of computing; to others an overestimated minor figure. I've been curious for a long time what the real story is. And in preparation for her bicentennial, I decided to try to solve what for me has always been the 'mystery of Ada'." If you're not up for the full 12,000+ word read, skip to "The Final Story" for the TL;DR summary.
Why haven't Alice and Bob been replaced with Ada and Babbage yet?
Hey, just come out of the closet; there's no shame in being gay. And stop trying to make yourself look smarter by belittling women - it doesn't work.
Surely everyone who's read even a single page of a New Kind of Science -- or just that title, actually -- must admit that Lord Wolfram is a modest, self-deprecating kind of guy.
Er, where does racism come into this? Did you just grab the wrong card from your stack of SJW talking points?