Current Events > Lord Byron's daughter was a maths prodigy. He also slept with his half sister.

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Wtf was this guy's problem?

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Sunhawk posted...

Wtf was this guy's problem?

18th century

Ada Lovelace was fucking brilliant!

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I see what is wrong with the 2nd part, but what is wrong with having a math prodigy daughter?

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uwnim posted...

but what is wrong with having a math prodigy daughter?

18th century

Lord Byron was freaking awesome. Say what you will about him.

Was she hot?

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yea, idk what one has to do with the other.

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Was his daughter also his half sister's daughter?

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half-cest

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What are you doing half-bro?

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@Byron808

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byron's daughter is widely revered as the first computer programmer

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cjsdowg posted...

half-cest

If you don't go for full penetration, it's halfway-in-cest.

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reading through Wikipedia, it seems he also had desires for some of his cousins, was having sex (or at least, doing sexual acts) as a kid, and that he was bisexual, but that wasn't something really understood about him at the time

I'm still reading through it, so maybe there's a bunch more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron (in the personal life section)


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Criminalt posted...

Was his daughter also his half sister's daughter?

seems like there were rumors that was the case

edit: not the same daughter in the topic title, though.

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TheMikh posted...

byron's daughter is widely revered as the first computer programmer

I hate being that guy but it is a little bit of a misleading title and I always felt it takes away from Charles Babbage in the story. Lovelace was definitely not the first programmer, but probably the first "published programmer", for whatever that's worth.

Lovelace was a genius, but the programmer part comes in with her work with Babbage on his Analytical Engine. Babbage was a polymath as well and spent a large part of his life designing and building what would've been a Turing-complete computer decades and decades ahead of the real first computer. Babbage, at least one of his sons, and a few of his machinists would have all knew and written how a program on the Analytical Engine would've been computed after the decades they spent planning and building it. But the machine was never completed (for various reasons - partly because his machinist basically scammed him and partly because of the sorry state of Britain's science community at the time) and Babbage famously never published any writings about the machine. Lovelace helped Babbage enormously as a translator, and translated notes for Babbage on the Engine and included with it guided notes on how his engine would compute Bernoulli numbers. That's what was published, and that's how Lovelace is "the first published programmer". Which is still important, but on this area she was definitely more of a side character than the main character.

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Payzmaykr posted...

Lord Byron was freaking awesome. Say what you will about him.

This. He's a national hero to the Greeks too-- he died there while helping their war for independence.

Kuuko posted...

I hate being that guy but it is a little bit of a misleading title and I always felt it takes away from Charles Babbage in the story. Lovelace was definitely not the first programmer, but probably the first "published programmer", for whatever that's worth.

Lovelace was a genius, but the programmer part comes in with her work with Babbage on his Analytical Engine. Babbage was a polymath as well and spent a large part of his life designing and building what would've been a Turing-complete computer decades and decades ahead of the real first computer. Babbage, at least one of his sons, and a few of his machinists would have all knew and written how a program on the Analytical Engine would've been computed after the decades they spent planning and building it. But the machine was never completed (for various reasons - partly because his machinist basically scammed him and partly because of the sorry state of Britain's science community at the time) and Babbage famously never published any writings about the machine. Lovelace helped Babbage enormously as a translator, and translated notes for Babbage on the Engine and included with it guided notes on how his engine would compute Bernoulli numbers. That's what was published, and that's how Lovelace is "the first published programmer". Which is still important, but on this area she was definitely more of a side character than the main character.

ah, thanks for the correction/clarification.

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The_Korey posted...

@Byron808

Bow before the mighty Lord Byron!

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