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Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park
An anonymous reader writes: In 2013, a restoration project for Hut 6 of Bletchley Park uncovered a collection of papers being used as roof insulation. The papers were frozen to preserve them while they were inspected and repaired. Now they're on display at an exhibition showing items found during the restoration process. "The documents also included the only known examples of Banbury sheets, a technique devised by [Turing] to accelerate the process of decrypting Nazi messages. No other examples have ever been found. All the findings are unique as all documentary evidence from the codebreaking process was supposed to be destroyed under wartime security rules."
First they persecute him for being gay, then they assassinate him, and finally they use his notes as insulation.
Those British pommy bastards are pure evil, and they deserve to have their rotten Empire collapse around their ears.
Yes but are the notes Turing Complete?
- 1952
It is suggested that a system of chemical substances, called morphogens, reacting together and diffusing through a tissue, is adequate to account for the main phenomena of morphogenesis.
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Such a system, although it may originally be quite homogeneous, may later develop a pattern or structure due to an instability of the homogeneous equilibrium, which is triggered off by random disturbances. ....
Who the fuck cares about the writings of a perverted fanny bandit? The world would be much better off if we recriminalized sodomy.
We get The Imitation Game 2?
Imagine being the guy that had to sift through the freshly dug up latrine behind Hut 6. Just to make sure nothing important was used during someone's morning constitutional.
Somebody had to see these notes, decide that they were worthless, and actually roll them up to make insulation. I want to punch that guy. How does this happen!?!?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Did his notes say how much he likes the feeling of a large cock in his anus whist he swallows the load of another?
See if the Apollo 11 tapes are in there also.
Table-ized A.I.
So I've been in meetings all day, then finally get home and I saw this story on /.'s feed. I thought, "ah, it'll be good for some immature homo jokes"
/., you did not disappoint. I'm crying from laughing so hard at the from the inane, puerile jokes that I seek out at times likes these.
Thank you,
If you don't like that, well fuck you, too.
Trolling is a art,
Among the notes was the solution to a maximization problem: how to jack off a cock for the largest volume of sperm output.
Learn some history; any biography of Turing will confirm that the man was indeed homosexual but did not engage in anal sex.
Next time you misplace hard drives, please check any recent insulation projects at LANL first!
--The Boss
Using the work of a luminary like Alan Turing is such a way is insulating!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
The paper would serve just as well for insulation if it had been shredded.
LOL. good pun mate
The Breaking of Enigma was done by the Polish Mathematicians
Other than the obvious impact Turing's work had in the war effort, did people at Bletchley have any idea how valuable his work would be more generally? My computer science peers are quite good at explaining how their work might have value and impact. Indeed, a lot of scientists these days start publications by providing this context. But is the same true in the first half of the twentieth century and in the middle of a world war? It might well have been the case that his notes were genuinely believed to have more value as insulation.
The notes will be restored and then popped into a glass display case with one or two pages visible, with a sort-of description of why they are important.
Pretty much all of Bletchley is like this, unfortunately. Stuff on display that you are not going to understand, such as copies of Turing's early mathematical papers with only the first page showing.
The problem with the whole Bletchley Park experience is that it was obviously extremely important, but is practically beyond all explanation for the ordinary punter. I think I might be able to intellectually struggle through an explanation of some of it, but the displays do not explain it in enough detail to help with that. Overall, my visit felt like a patchwork of different explanations of the same few concepts using poster boards, audio devices and video and interactive displays. It's padded out with various "wartime experience" bits here and there.
It probably seems like a very negative attitude, but a technical chap in his mid-forties with a couple of bright teenagers in tow ought to be right in the target demographic for Bletchley, but I'm practically embarrassed to say that I ended up drinking weak hot chocolate in the cafe and agreeing with my boys that it was all rather dull.
Special commendation for the rack of old bicycles at the end of one of the huts, with a hidden speaker to give you the authentic experience of what squeaky bicycle wheels sounded like in the 1940's. Or something?
He was into anal sex and if you bust the anus shit just drops out. So he must have always needed to have some paper with him just in case. In the U.K. toilet paper was made out of very thick paper because of wartime rations. Hey! it could be the remains of his code breaking turd.
Anything in there concerning something like "P" or "NP"? One can dream...
Yet he did more to save their asses than ALL of the RAF.
I hope all you brits are still ashamed of yourselves.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Visited the National Cryptologic Museum (on the same campus as the NSA, just off 295 in Maryland) about a decade ago. I and my then-girlfriend were probably the only visitors in the entire building, and the staff were pretty excited to see us. They even let us try out the German Enigma machine they had on display - no glass display case at that time! Don't know if it's changed in the last ten years, though.
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Nazists... what a strange nation, when was Nazi country created? Was it located close to Germany for example?