Lovelace’s Leap : a great observation from jgc. ‘Lovelace realized that even though a computer was, at its heart, a mathematical machine, it wasn’t restricted to doing mathematics. She realized that a computer could be used to process other types of ‘information’ by having numbers represent anything else. She realized that a computer could handle text, or music, or practically anything. That’s Lovelace’s Leap.’
(tags: jgc history ada-lovelace computing software information code babbage)Rectangular subdivisions of the world : ‘Eric Fischer, who continues his string of mapping fun and doesn’t even do it for his day job, maps the world in binary subdivisions. Each bounding box contains an equal number of geotagged tweets.’ via Nelson
(tags: maps mapping bounding-boxes world earth geodata geotagging twitter)