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    15 days ago

    This woman wrote computer programs while computers were still almost purely theoretical. Fucking mind-blowing.

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      15 days ago

      I can’t imagine a more advanced mind. I mean, maybe Einstein, but we have proof of her discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world! (I mean, they kinda are, but you get what I mean.)

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        19 hours ago

        I’m not sure what you mean. Einstein’s theories are not without proof or purely abstract. Without them, satellites’ clocks would get noticeably out of sync with earth’s, which would (among other things) render GPS absolutely useless.