A Brief History of the Mechanical Turk

A Brief History of the Mechanical Turk

by | Jan 6, 2025 | History

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Mechanical Turk, an ingenious 18th-century hoax created by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770, captivated audiences across Europe and the Americas for over 80 years with its ability to play chess against...
Steve Martin – Finding Logic in Comedy

Steve Martin – Finding Logic in Comedy

by | Nov 26, 2024 | General

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In logic class, I opened my textbook—the last place I was expecting to find comic inspiration—and was startled to find that Lewis Carroll, the supremely witty author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,...
Rube Goldberg – Thinking Like a Coder

Rube Goldberg – Thinking Like a Coder

by | Nov 22, 2024 | History

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was an American cartoonist, engineer, and social critic who became a cultural icon through his satirical cartoons of absurdly complex machines performing simple tasks. Rube...
Ada Lovelace – Computing Pioneer

Ada Lovelace – Computing Pioneer

by | Nov 21, 2024 | History

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, is widely recognized as the world’s first computer programmer, having written the earliest algorithm designed to be processed by a machine. Her visionary work on Charles...