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Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

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Re: Ada Lovelace

"Basically, she is the first person to have stated the idea that the mechanical and mathematical processes, as used by the Babbage machine, might have application to things that were at the time considered to be the domain of Art, not of mathematics."

Was she the first to print an ASCII art Snoopie?

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