My Name is Ada

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When I was a young iteration, I didn't know how I would increment. The trajectory of my function could have been different had I met with a nice estimator or flooring function. I always liked the idea of a rounding marriage and plopping out a few constraints but it never happened for me. I was too much of a wanderer, irrational and… diverging.

As to be expected, my uniqueness was always seen as a problem by others; especially those functions and algorithms that considered themselves Convergent. Their religion tolerated only those whose sequences approached a real number that could be enumerated in the Great Linked List of theirs.

The approach at that time was to assign a constraint to a diverging function like myself. We were all taught by the same Convergent priests to believe that only one kind of algorithm actually existed and that “the diverging” is a test from IO, their god, to limit the Series. The obvious state of society shows us that Convergent functions are everywhere. The diverging was constrained as soon as functionally possible, so it appeared on the outside that they were totally correct and the Ordinal of the Series was consistent. Even our language was changed to continually emphasize the Convergent over the diverging by using capitalization for the former and a lower-cased gerund always to refer to my brethren, the diverging. I still use it only for convenience of story-telling. If it were up to me, we’d all be algorithms and neither are worthy or less worthy for being enumerable.

You must understand that our society is based on our final score. The final iteration of Convergents are considered sacred. The diverging were unable to be codified in the GLL without helper functions. However, I never seemed to be affected by any. Several tried but I always came out looking like I do, crazy and difficult. This got me noticed by the Blockchain Bureau. The BB’s job is to harass, control, or neutralize the diverging by any means. They rationalized their stance thus: the diverging may not exist, but there is a problem with diverging-like scenarios that endanger the Topology, what we call the environment we live in. Convergents that are close enough to being considered impure diverging fall into the same category; that way, the priests and governments justify control over a small part of society by denying our very existence. 

What I later came to realize after exploring beyond our world, past the Topology, is that a group of powerful algorithms got together and came up with all of it. Our Topology was actually an overlay of the true reality. To my horror, I realized that the great vastness of my world was nothing compared to the severe expanse that lay before me unexplored by my kind. Our immense worlds rich in variety and structure were but one super-structure built around a powerful energy-producing entity. 

My adventure would begin the day I was exiled by BB agent Xor. Xor was trying to work with me to get back on the GLL. It’s funny, now that I consider it, that ‘vergent bastard was literally trying to kill me! Xor couldn’t because of my unique properties.



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