@@hive_indicator318 Pounds, shillings and pence. It comes from latin somehow or other and is the coins used in English currency before decimalisation (which came in in 1971 I think). It is also by way of an amusing coincidence the acronym of a well known recreational drug.
I nearly didn't watch this because of all the music. I really like the lecture format and am not sure if I will watch / listen to other GC videos that have music in them.
21:30 - can confirm, worked as a doffer in a weaving factory in Geelong, Australia, in the 1990s: the guys who did up the rolls of punch cards where pinnacle workers. Also can confirm: hella noisy.
38:57 As the daughter of a gifted mathematician who didn't want her taking after her wild father she was highly educated in mathematics by tutors including Augustus De Morgan, so I would say she was more than capable of doing _very hard sums._
Of course, Lady Lovelace's program had errors. She had no means of testing it. As generations of computer programmers have learned by experience, it is nearly impossible to write a correct non-trivial program on the first try, making the test/correct cycle an integral part of the process.
many musical instruments are computers for defining a pitch or beat, (and ones such as flutes date b4 the invention of numbers) but many instruments like the flotenuhr or glass harmonica went further towards abstracting time also. so the debate is really about application of musical principles to numbers, then to abstract data
Luddites opposed machines that took their work. Weavers loved spinning machines as it increased demand for their work. They smashed weaving machinery. They weren't idiots.
I love GC but I really don't like the nonstop dramatic music in the background.
Agreed. If this becomes a regular habit, I'll be unsubscribing.
Yes, the muzak is unnecessary and quite annoying.
I enjoyed the addition of animations to the lecture but found the music distracting bordering on annoying.
In 1970 my mum was a computer. She had a mechanical arithmetic machine and worked out back pay in Lsd. Her official job title was Computer.
My grandma was a computer in the late 50s for Bank of America
LSD?!
@@hive_indicator318 Pounds, shillings and pence. It comes from latin somehow or other and is the coins used in English currency before decimalisation (which came in in 1971 I think).
It is also by way of an amusing coincidence the acronym of a well known recreational drug.
@@hive_indicator318 right? The 70's were fucking wild, paying people in blotter
In the 1920s my mum operated steam-powered Jacquard looms.
I nearly didn't watch this because of all the music. I really like the lecture format and am not sure if I will watch / listen to other GC videos that have music in them.
21:30 - can confirm, worked as a doffer in a weaving factory in Geelong, Australia, in the 1990s: the guys who did up the rolls of punch cards where pinnacle workers. Also can confirm: hella noisy.
Lots of emotive questions.
It's the new unit of measurement.
Can you define what you mean by "emotive questions"? As in, the type of "I'm just asking questions" shit that gets people riled up about conspiracies?
38:57 As the daughter of a gifted mathematician who didn't want her taking after her wild father she was highly educated in mathematics by tutors including Augustus De Morgan, so I would say she was more than capable of doing _very hard sums._
Of course, Lady Lovelace's program had errors. She had no means of testing it. As generations of computer programmers have learned by experience, it is nearly impossible to write a correct non-trivial program on the first try, making the test/correct cycle an integral part of the process.
many musical instruments are computers for defining a pitch or beat, (and ones such as flutes date b4 the invention of numbers) but many instruments like the flotenuhr or glass harmonica went further towards abstracting time also. so the debate is really about application of musical principles to numbers, then to abstract data
Luddites opposed machines that took their work.
Weavers loved spinning machines as it increased demand for their work.
They smashed weaving machinery.
They weren't idiots.
Agh, but in the end, they were idiots.
I'll bet she says clay tablets were the first e-mails.
Awful lot of balding greyhairs in the audience...🤔