He was persecuted in his own country for being gay. He was very influential for the allies beating the Germans in WWII by cracking the German secret code with his enigma code breaking machine. He was a brilliant mathematician.
Sorry to say that the inputs to develop the decoding machine was because of the he extremely complex coding and decoding machines development in the first place.
Thank you. Wasn't directed at you in particular. I'm trying to reach as many people as possible so I post this everywhere it is even remotely appropriate.
The lecture I attended yesterday on the history of AI , had a large discussion about the Turning Test and how you can decide if your machines has achieved Full Intelligent
As some know, he couldn’t discuss his work on the Enigma project so the press hounded him about his homosexuality until he ate a poisoned apple kill-ing himself. Urban myth was that the Apple logo was a nod to his work. When Steve Jobs was asked about it his remark was God I wish that was true.
That man was fucking tortured by the British for saving the world from the Nazis. They will never outlive that stain on their history. Atrocious. The church is evil. Christianity in the hands of power is evil.
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Honor to whom honor is due.
Rewind several decades
https://www.britannica.com/story/ada-lovelace-the-first-computer-programmer
Both are actively resisting Project 2025.
They need our support now more than ever.
AU - https://americansunited.bsky.social FFRF - https://ffrf.org
I will check the other one out as well.
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By the end of the Trump era, we’ll likely be back to that level of Stone Age homophobia too.
So many men are fucking predators. Treat their wives like crap. And we celebrate them.
Alan didn’t hurt anyone