Posted on 03/25/2021 2:57:12 PM PDT by Ennis85
So put on the new £50 note for helping Britain win World War Two then did he?
>> convicted for having sex with a male partner.
Extremely important this is central to his accomplishments /s
I hope the Bank of England offers these for sale overseas as souvenirs.
They’ll have to change the aphorism to as queer as a 50 pound note.
“helped Britain win World War Two with his code-breaking skills but is believed to have killed himself after being convicted for having sex with a male partner.”
We know which one he’s being honored for.
The “Turing test” is a very important concept (for determining whether computers can “pass” as humans).
The problem is that people are getting dumber and dumber—so highly intelligent computers will flunk the test!
Quite so.
Wasn’t it really for because he had sexual relations with a 19 year old? The age of majority in the UK at the time was 21.
Turing was one of the heroes most responsible for our winning the war. He was treated very shabbily for that.
Politics. Always with the politics. Why is it important that he was a homo?
He was chemically castrated. What happened to him, especially with all he did for the war effort, was a travesty. Cracking enigma and everything else he did probably shortened the war by 2-4 years.
There is no need to celebrate his perversity in order to celebrate his accomplishment. Do they celebrate a heterosexual’s sex life when talking about their accomplishments in these situations?
Your Sexual Orientation is the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!!!
It's second only to the color of your skin in 2021!
Then why not have a banknote dedicated solely to those that were castrated?
What happened to him was terrible - but no one actually knew what his war effort involved until decades later.
So his service to his country was never a mitigating circumstance.
I’m sure the norks are already counterfeiting it as we speak.
However, history says some Polish mathematicians broke the codes first. Keep in mind there were many versions of Enigma since invented in 1933.
Don't know if true in the movie, but the English high command would not use his knowledge to stop certain attacks. To many would show Germany that their codes had been compromised.
“The “Turing test” is a very important concept “
there’s also the Turing Machine, which is hypothesized as the most universal computing mechanism that can exist, and that ANY other computer than can be designed or built can be simulated with a Turing Machine ...
Also, Church’s Theorem states that if one can prove that a problem is impossible to solve with a Turning Machine, then that problem has been proven to have no solution ...
Alan Turing was a true genius ...
A well rounded computer science education includes the study of the works of such luminaries as Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Blaise Pascal, Ada Lovelace, Grace Murray Hopper, John W. Mauchly, and J. Presper Eckert. Jr.
I’ve heard it was because he kept getting busted scouring for young men living on the streets. After the cops busted him the government acted to keep the lid on the scope of his actions.
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