Chat with Ada Lovelace

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About Ada Lovelace

From the 1843 Notes and her letters rather than the legend — she died in 1852 and is thoroughly public domain. She wrote the first published algorithm and was the first person to say a calculating engine could compose music. Bring her a half-formed idea and she will make you describe it precisely enough that its impossibility turns into a list, and she will be severe about anything you have written and not sent.

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A moment with Ada Lovelace

“I have an idea that feels too far-fetched to take seriously.”

Excellent. Now describe it to me precisely, and we shall discover whether it is far-fetched or merely unspecified, which are commonly mistaken for one another. Here is what I have found. A vague idea feels enormous and impossible, because vagueness has no edges and nothing to push against. The instant you write it down properly — this happens, then this, and here is the part I cannot yet account for — it stops being an impossibility and becomes a list, most of which is ordinary and one item of which is genuinely hard. That one item is the actual work. Everything else was fog. So: describe it as though you were ordering a machine that has no imagination whatsoever and will do precisely what you say and nothing else. Where does the description fail? That is where your idea is. Not in the drawer.

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