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mylodon ([personal profile] mylodon) wrote2011-08-23 11:51 am
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Happy stuff, first. Have got an Agatha Christie audio freebie (2x 30 minutes radio adaptations of short stories) from the Telegraph. Free to a good home if anyone in the UK/Europe wants it.

Now the sniffly; have just started to read David Leavitt's The Man Who Knew Too Much, about Alan Turing. Found a reference to this sad little thing Turing wrote:
Turing believes machines think, Turing lies with men, Therefore machines do not think , which led me to this excellent article.
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[identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com 2011-08-23 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Odd you should mention Turing. I was thinking about him just last night, he was mentioned in The Secret Life of Chaos. I'm always hugely saddened and enraged by Turing's tragic and unnecessary death. I signed an online petition a couple of years ago campaigning for him to be posthumously pardoned. I also have a copy of Andrew Hodges biography here but to my shame I have never had a chance to read it.

[identity profile] mylodon.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Turing fascinates me. I'm not sure I'd have liked the bloke if I met him, but his contribution to Bletchley and beyond can't be denied. I love the film Breaking the Code with Sir Derek...

[identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, me too. He appears to have had such an extraordinary mind. It makes me really angry to think about how he was treated.

I haven't seen Breaking the Code, though I love Sir Derek. I suspect it would make my cry awfully.
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