Ada Lovelace Day
Today is the second Tuesday in October, Ada Lovelace Day – celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This year The Guardian has a more reasonable article than last year’s ‘nerd cafe’ reference.
The BBC chimes in.
Ada Lovelace is generally considered to be the first computer programmer, as she wrote ‘code’ for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. The Engine itself couldn’t be built at the time because it required precision in machining that wasn’t available. [IBM later built part of the Engine and it worked as Babbage claimed.]
The ADA programming language, created for the US Department of Defense, was named for Countess Lovelace.
Computers don’t care who writes the code, what they look like, or anything other than the code works. Unfortunately too many people can’t leave their personal hangups, biases, & prejudices behind, so days like this are necessary.
October 11, 2016 4 Comments
Hurricane Nicole – Day 8
Position: 27.3N 66.6W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [270°] near 2 mph [ 4 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 90 mph [150 kph].
Wind Gusts: 110 mph [175 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 30 miles [ 45 km].
Minimum central pressure: 970 mb ↓.
Currently about 360 miles [ 580 km] South-Southwest of Bermuda.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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