footnote:

that summer, 1816, wasn't just unnaturally cold and rainy in Switzerland, the whole world felt it. It was called "the year without a summer." There was famine from crop failures all over the world

this was all due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

so we can say, via the creativity of one bored cold teenager cooped up with nothing better to do except write, that we owe "Frankenstein" partly to massive climate disruption from a volcano

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eru…

catastrophic volcanic eruption in present-day Indonesia

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/…

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Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial Intelligence

During Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician.

^{Justyna Zwolak (National Institute of Standards and Technology)}