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	<title>Comments on: Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace</title>
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		<title>By: Grurray</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was one of the first to realize &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html&quot;&gt;the limitations of computers&lt;/a&gt; in terms of actually thinking rather than calculating:

&lt;blockquote&gt;The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner.&lt;/blockquote&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She was one of the first to realize <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html">the limitations of computers</a> in terms of actually thinking rather than calculating:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner.</p></blockquote>
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