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<div class="date">8 Nov 2015</div>
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My daughter read a book about Ada Lovelace, which generated
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discussion about Alan Turing, which generated discussions about
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computers, which showed me how much kids not only don’t know about
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computers, but how unlikely they are to understand <i>the guts
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underneath the icons</i>.
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Over the weekend, I completed my personal hack-a-thon on a project
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to <a href="http://www.floraabrams.com/ada">demonstrate the depths of a computer</a>, but in a simpler way.
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I may give it to my after school computer club that I run at a local
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middle school.
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Pretty simple as my entire assembly language parser was written as a
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single <code>reduce</code> function.
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</p>
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