Context: During WW2 Alan Turing was essential to the efforts to break the Nazi Enigma code. In 1952 the British government chemically castrated him for being gay, in 1954 he took his life.
ohulancutash 10 points 12 hours ago
Turing didnt code anything until 1954 when he wrote a program so buggy someone else had to entirely re-write it. He didn’t write anither program. His work focused on theoretical computing.
neukenindekeuken 2 points an hour ago
So, like most researchers then?
thethunderwolf 5 points 2 hours ago
his soul haunts the entire field of computer science, which is why compsci people are the way they are
cooltrainer_frank 3 points 6 hours ago
That title chefs kiss
QuinnyCoded 2 points an hour ago
my first idea for a username was QueerQuinn, so reading QueerCoded is kinda weird to me lol
thethunderwolf 2 points 2 hours ago
britain for no good reason: lethally forcefems their lead computer scientist
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Isn't the "took his life" thing disputed?
I heard there's some evidence that the cyanide was part of a natural process that he couldn't have known about and several of his close friends don't think it was suicide.
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