Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” – PM
Via Slashdot.
The technology for linking internet ads to content still has some way to go. When I first saw this it was linked to an ad for Ann Coulter. The thought of how she would react to this news was good for a chuckle.
Turing’s work on math and computers is part of the permanent record of human achievement. It will be recalled as fundamental when all of our current political and social controversies are mere historical curiosities.
Convergence is coming soon and colgaffneyis, as usual, will be well represented there. I wonder how many of my fellow members have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. I read it in High School, more than 40 years ago. I was immediately fascinated by the pike-and-shot era, and soon afterwards read Oman to learn something of the real history. I have been reading more ever since. It was all started by science fiction.
I have started a daily “column” on colgaffneyis e-mail list. Continue reading
I bought a large coffee before heading up to my desk this morning. I never buy a donut or other sweet to go with it, but one such object puzzles me: The Bismarck. How did something soft, sweet, and gooey get named after the Iron Chancellor? None of those adjectives could be applied to him.
Appparently I am not alone in finding this odd.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 