Beginning the MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Essex this July.

It’s a broad and thoughtful course — #machineLearning, #intelligentAgents, #numericalMethods, #knowledgeSystems, and a major #research project.

I’ll be sharing my journey here, time permitting.

Babbage never finished his machine. Others picked up where he left off.

- Ada Lovelace: Wrote the first code for Baggage's machine
- Alan Turing: Cited Babbage when defining computation
- von Neumann: Reflected Babbage’s design in his architecture

The father of computing, never saw his creation.

Before there were microchips, there were cranks and gears.

And in the 1830s, Babbage designed a machine with:
- A memory
- A processor
- Conditional logic
- Loops
- Punch card input

A real computer, a hundred years early.

If built, it would’ve changed the world. In fact, it did.

Babbage didn’t trust human math.

At Cambridge, he watched as scientists fumbled numbers. Calculations were riddled with mistakes. And he couldn’t stand it.

So he tried to create a machine to fix it.

First: The Difference Engine
Then: The Analytical Engine
Not just to crunch numbers—but to think.

Charles Babbage, the father of Computing, never saw one.

In the 1830s, he drafted machines no one could build. His tools were pen, paper, and firelight.

The world didn’t have the metal. The gears. The will.

But what he did have? A vision.

One that would take nearly a century to catch up to.

I found a 2014 study that emphasises the benefits of expecting to teach.​

Participants who anticipated teaching retained information better and organized it more effectively.​

This suggests that teaching others the material we study will improve our own understanding.

Source: rdcu.be/ehEMq