Alan Turing, wherever you might be, people of our time and of the future will be grateful for your work, and feel symphaty for your sensibility. Thank you for the great contribution to the humanity!
Fun fact; The "Voight Kampff Test" in the movie Blade Runner, which tests an individual for being either a human or a replicant, should strictly be called the "Turing Test" because it was built on Turing's approach to distinguishing between human thinking and machine thinking.
Fun fact: Blade Runner was a film adaptation from the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which was written by Phillip K. Dick. It was Dick that created the Voight Kampff machine (and test questions) for determining if a person is a human or a "replicant". Giving credit to Turing would be a grave misappropriation of the Blade Runner canon.
It's criminal that even back then a bonafide genius should be condemned for their preferences, be they who you're romantically interested in or how you choose to express yourself. Even today many struggle with the fact that they see themselves as different purely because the world tells them as such. How much talent is there in society today that is being held back simply because society itself is too obtuse to recognize it?
Honestly, I'd say that the biggest bar to people developing their talent in Western nations today is a lack of driving purpose and an overall lack of understanding of how dark life can be; being an outsider spurs people to develop their abilities or to see some slice of the world in a newer, more accurate way. Not that I think we should judge anyone except upon their words and actions; judging anyone by immutable, inherited traits is both immoral and idiotic. I'm just saying that even potentially world-changing geniuses can be seduced by comfort or endlessly diverted because they have no extrinsic reasons to hurry. Not all, of course. Some people have enough intrinsic motivation to do amazing things. Nevertheless, pressure and hardship and sticking to a problem against the odds are often necessary to allow people to crystallize genius from the fog of potential. By the way, a great novel steeped in cryptography, one which features Turing as an important minor character, is Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon._
Like Mr. Turing, I too am an Aspie, which is to say that I'm affected by Asperger's syndrome. I tried teaching high school for a few years before I learned of this, and during that time I learned that there's no such thing as useless information. All information is valuable to someone. The challenge is determining what information is valuable to whom. Given that, it stands to reason that no one is useless, since all of us have information that no one else has.
Sadly, the engineer who came up with "The Bomb" in 1938 in Polish Cypher Bureau remained largerly anonymous, overshadowed even by largerly forgotten Polish mathematicians like Rejewski, Różycki, Zygalski....
Great movie that further committed a great crime of omitting an important person from history. Their leaving out Gordon Welchman was just a repeat of history...by finally telling everyone about Alan Touring to give him the credit he deserved, they just left Welchman out to dry. Not only was he the head of Bletchley Park's most important team, HE was the one that invented the Diagonal Board that made tourings machine fast enough to actually break the code AND it was his team that figured out the key words to look for to crack Enigma. This movie made it out like it was Touring that did it all.
And they made a Polish man a traitor when it was the Poles who came with the initial ideas on cracking Enigma and gave all their intelligence to the British. EDIT: I was wrong, mixed it up with another movie.
What would God say to us, and to Alan Turing, about how He uniquely created and selected Alan for such a time as this in WWII, if without Alan Turing Britain might have fallen ? And what does that say about sexuality, and what one might call "other moral failures", in the midst of the most deadly and cruel war ever...? Believe we need a perspective way beyond 35,000 feet.....
I wonder if a similar progression could be used to learn ninja front handspring. Also, could u do one of these easy progression vids for a suicide kip-up, also known as the rubber band.
a genius played by a genius. more importantly: Mrs of Greece and Denmark / Ms Windsor, knight Turing already! He possibly saved your royal a$$ back then
the ironic thing about it: the brits could have learned a great deal from the germans in regards to remembrance culture and how to deal with your past responsibly. yet it has taken an absolutely shocking amount of time until they did so. Charles Dance - as so often - said it best. and no: the real tragedy about all of this is not, what Turing could have achieved for humanity. The true tragedy is, that he wasn't able to because of his sexuality and medieval amounts of torturing, yet only in a chemical way, because of it.
It's a MOVIE "somewhat based on fact" but NOT "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth".....Turing worked on breaking the German naval enigma model/configuration of the enigma, which had several different models and configurations in use, 3 to 4 rotor double encryption cipher machine......the lowest level (secret, tactical use) German cipher machine of the four (4) different German cipher machines used to encrypt messages which were the sent by morse code.....Turing only redesigned the Polish "Bombe", a calculator using six Polish replica enigma rotors to speed up accessing the daily German naval enigma settings........it was the highest level German cipher machine was the Lorenz SZ 40-42 a 12 rotor Top Secret cipher machine used by Hitler and the High Command to communicate orders and directives to instruct, command and control the German military commanders in the field.....Bill Tutte broke the Lorenz cipher machine and then Tommy Flowers conceived, designed my built and put into operation the world's FIRST electronic digital, memory based computer......used to speed up accessing the daily Lorenz settings....
Excuse me...it was Gordon Welchman that made the Touring machine fast enough to break the code AND it was also his team that was using what we now call meta-data to crack their communications and discovered the key words used daily to be able to creak the code in the first place. Welchman invented the diagonal board and design that sped up the calculation process and all digital computers are now based off the combined design of the Welchman-Touring machine.
@@r13hd22 Exactly- they also brought in many false story lines like the spy one. Its very very unlikely Turing ever came into contact with him as Blechley has strong security. The machine was also not called Christopher and etc etc. I can obviously live with that but Welchman not even being shown or mentioned just hurts and is a repeat of history. (Turing was also an approachable man, so yeah welcome to the world of biopics)
Yeah that was one of the films greatest tragedies...all they did by finally giving Touring the credit he deserved was further slap Welchman in the face.
@@kingy002 You're being a bit disingenuous calling me, "precious". If someone is going to play a literal war hero and try talk with authority about computing over the ages, they should at least get their facts straight.
There is nowadays a distinction between Babbage's early work (sometimes called protocomputing) and modern computer science. Turing's discoveries were about the fundamental limits of computation, by first reducing the expression of a computer to its simplest possible form, then asking questions about that machine's operation. Babbage and Lovelace made fundamental contributions but they do not appear to have been on the radar of Turing's generation, which did indeed see the birth of modern computer science.
When the world is in crisis God always puts someone to stop the madness and destruction this was perfect example does humanity raise them up and honor them or even thank them no we destroy them well for my self I say thank you Mr. Turing God bless you 🙏
Amazing movei but seriously do your own research as there are *many* creative liberties taken to dramatise it more, many things patchworked together but still a good film
I really dislike how this person said he made Christopher, the machine, to bring back Christopher, the person. The man became driven by logic. A logical person knows you can't bring back the dead. The naming of the machine was a term of endearment and respect to a lost loved one. There was no way in heck he was driven to create the machine because of a desire to recreate a past person.
Enigme, a few years before the outbreak of World War II, was broken by three Poles: Zygalski, Rejewski and Różycki! They built the world's first decryption machine called Crypto Bomb! The name bomb came from the fact that it ticked like a time bomb! IT WAS IN 1932! Just before the war, the Poles passed the secret of decryption to the French and the English. The latter have appropriated the success of the Poles and declare that it was Toring who broke Enigma in 1940! Hahaha! Thieves!
Guy should of never of helped. Unless you share the exact same values as society no matter what you do for them you are always going to end up an enemy.
