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Programming Is a Skill Best Acquired by Practice and Example Rather Than From Books
Alan Turing? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The best way to learn computer programming is by seeing examples, writing code, and executing
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France officially bans LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’: What you need to know
France joined US, Germany, Canada and other countries as it passed a law criminalising the use of the discredited practice to attempt to change the
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Once the Machine Thinking Method Had Started, It Would Not Take Long To Outstrip Our Feeble Powers
Alan Turing? Sara Turing? Stuart Russell? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: A pioneering mathematician and computer researcher in the 1950s
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Once the Machine Thinking Method Had Started, It Would Not Take Long To Outstrip Our Feeble Powers
Alan Turing? Sara Turing? Stuart Russell? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: A pioneering mathematician and computer researcher in the 1950s
So Much for the Turing Test … and for Consequentialism
In a few sentences, and with his characteristic penetrating trenchance, Chastek demolishes the Turing Test, and for that matter all arguments from
Turing books $87M at a $1.1B valuation to help source, hire and manage engineers remotely
When it comes to engineering talent in the world of tech, demand continues to outpace supply, a predicament so acute that by 2030, that disparity
On the Turing Test
It would seem that the Turing Test fails in principle to test what it wants to test. If we take machines to be mindless per se, then a simulacrum of
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Who Invented Video Games?
Some people just love to play. Give them a ball, or a pen, or a pile of leaves and they’ll find a way to play with it. In fact, enough people love
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September 28, 1951: Alan Turing, the World’s First Digital Music, and the Poetry of Possibility
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world. “All truth is comprised in music and mathematics,” Margaret Fuller wrote in
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Was the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Autistic? A Review of the Imitation Game
Considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing’s idiosyncrasies have led some historians to
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Long Ago? by Pippa Goodhart
‘Long ago and far away’ is the setting for so many picture book stories, and yet historically realistic ‘long ago’ is rarely found. Why?This
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Alan Turing’s work in biology to inspire next generation of codebreakers
Alan Turing was the mathematician that cracked the enigma code used by the Nazis in World War 2 (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) World
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The UK introduces new GBP 50 note featuring codebreaker Alan Turing. Here’s a closer look at its details
The Bank of England has unveiled its design for its new GBP 50 note, and it features computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing. The new note
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A Puzzly Discovery Under the Sea!
We’ve talked quite a bit about the importance of Enigma machines in the past. The quest to crack the unbreakable Nazi code machine spanned the