this is brilliant - i learnt more about Turing from this 6minute vid than i did from an hours lecture on Turing in my AI class! Thank you for posting! Keep them coming? Also, who's the dude presenting?
I don't think that we can even imagine what benefits humanity might have enjoyed had Turing lived long enough to partner with John von Neumann and truly probe the essence of computational and complex systems. No amount of 'social order' or whatever those who promote the hatred of people who live their lives differently believe can be derived through coerced conformity could ever outweigh the damage done to us all with that coercion. Progress is always a rejection of the accepted order.
I says a lot about your commitment as a film maker, Brady, that you would actually go to Africa to film this lion family so you would have material to cut into this episode.
I love Alan Turing, but he was a mathematician not a scientist. I suppose, arguably you could call his contributions to morphogenesis as theoretical biology but I don't know it well enough to say. I think it is important to keep the distinctions between science and math clear because they require very different types of proof.
This made me so sad to hear of the horrible things that this wonderful man had to endure. What a great man to be treated in this way! Please let us learn from our mistakes.
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests. (oh, whilst working at amazon UK - Bedford. The irony!)
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests.
"Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages"
@RevDevilin Turing built the Bombe Machine, the machine featured in this video, which was designed to break the Enigma code. Tommy Flower's Colossus is a completely different machine.
@singingbanana "completely different machine" not exactly completely different, and without Flowers would Turing have accomplished so much ?, Flowers is seldom mentioned in regards to Turing, but is work was just as, if not more important than Turing's, but he is seldom mentioned
it was polish matematician Marian Rajewski who broke the enigma code, Turing only based on Rajewski's work, Turing was great mathematician indeed, but why calling him a hero, when someone else done the job?
@qak89 At the beginning the British code breakers were using methods developed by the Polish. When the German military changed their procedures this method no longer worked. Turing built the Bombe machine to exploit a completely different flaw in the Enigma code. It was these methods that were used for the majority of the war. But he still named the machine Bombe in honour of the machine the Polish had used called Bomba.
It was an absolute disgrace how our Government and fellow country men treated Alan Turing. A national hero, and a genius. I suppose it is hard to judge the past, but really how petty and ungrateful. One of the greatest minds to congeal on our shores, driven to suicide by narrow minded troglodytes.
@roidroid He was the inventor of Alternating current. AC is what enables us to use pylons that stretch for hundreds of miles and power homes. He was also a very interesting person- believing in his invention when others said it won't work.
@13baldjj Tesla was also better than Edison in every way. He even discovered a way to transmit electricity wirelessly, but the electric companies wouldn't let him.
Splendid programme,,and comfortably presented. Many thanks and Best Wishes!
Ivanhoe2 1 month ago
interesting video and very informative
clairebehun 1 month ago
really informative and interesting
sprattysy 1 month ago
really informative and interesting
TheSpikeystuff 1 month ago
Shame on England and shame on those ignorant times. This man should have a statue in Parliament Square.
KITCHENOFDISTINCTION 3 months ago 4
what's the song at the beginning?
TheKylengo 5 months ago
His mother never accepted the suicide theory, preferring to ascribe it to an accident. It is better to keep an open mind about such things.
jacksawild 7 months ago
this is brilliant - i learnt more about Turing from this 6minute vid than i did from an hours lecture on Turing in my AI class! Thank you for posting! Keep them coming? Also, who's the dude presenting?
Turomancer 7 months ago 2
Happy 99th birthday, Alan.
magreggins 8 months ago
I don't think that we can even imagine what benefits humanity might have enjoyed had Turing lived long enough to partner with John von Neumann and truly probe the essence of computational and complex systems. No amount of 'social order' or whatever those who promote the hatred of people who live their lives differently believe can be derived through coerced conformity could ever outweigh the damage done to us all with that coercion. Progress is always a rejection of the accepted order.
otakucode 8 months ago 3
Just to say well done. The speaker is Jon Tepper from Notts Trent Uni, UK.
ordinaryworld02 9 months ago
@ordinaryworld02 Okay thanks - that answers my earlier question.
Turomancer 7 months ago
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stop it with the childish cartoons. its silly
onehundredand37 9 months ago
I says a lot about your commitment as a film maker, Brady, that you would actually go to Africa to film this lion family so you would have material to cut into this episode.
:P
1p2o3i 9 months ago
Alan is one of my FAVORITE ever scientist!! :) Thanks for this video!
RavnoUK 9 months ago
I love Alan Turing, but he was a mathematician not a scientist. I suppose, arguably you could call his contributions to morphogenesis as theoretical biology but I don't know it well enough to say. I think it is important to keep the distinctions between science and math clear because they require very different types of proof.
michalchik 9 months ago
i love how the illustration makes the swastika look so cute haha
GLeNss 9 months ago
Just so ya know, the information bar says Alan Turning, not Turing.
DrJackyllandMrHide 9 months ago
This made me so sad to hear of the horrible things that this wonderful man had to endure. What a great man to be treated in this way! Please let us learn from our mistakes.
pheros24 9 months ago
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests. (oh, whilst working at amazon UK - Bedford. The irony!)
McPrfctday 9 months ago
I used to live in Milton Keynes (Wavendon Gate) and I mentioned Alan a few times... nobody there knew who the hell I was talking about... they were more interested in Cleo Laine. The stupids! Only kidding... people are people and interests are interests.
McPrfctday 9 months ago
Having a keen interest in both science and homosexual rights I have always found the story of Turing's life poignant. Thank you for the video.
Nobody277 9 months ago
Wiki
"Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages"
But turing gets the credit, phaa
RevDevilin 9 months ago
@RevDevilin Turing built the Bombe Machine, the machine featured in this video, which was designed to break the Enigma code. Tommy Flower's Colossus is a completely different machine.
singingbanana 9 months ago
@singingbanana "completely different machine" not exactly completely different, and without Flowers would Turing have accomplished so much ?, Flowers is seldom mentioned in regards to Turing, but is work was just as, if not more important than Turing's, but he is seldom mentioned
RevDevilin 9 months ago
it was polish matematician Marian Rajewski who broke the enigma code, Turing only based on Rajewski's work, Turing was great mathematician indeed, but why calling him a hero, when someone else done the job?
qak89 9 months ago 2
@qak89 At the beginning the British code breakers were using methods developed by the Polish. When the German military changed their procedures this method no longer worked. Turing built the Bombe machine to exploit a completely different flaw in the Enigma code. It was these methods that were used for the majority of the war. But he still named the machine Bombe in honour of the machine the Polish had used called Bomba.
singingbanana 9 months ago
The homophobia of the past is quite shocking - to me at least.
Fascinating video.
AlanKey86 9 months ago
It was an absolute disgrace how our Government and fellow country men treated Alan Turing. A national hero, and a genius. I suppose it is hard to judge the past, but really how petty and ungrateful. One of the greatest minds to congeal on our shores, driven to suicide by narrow minded troglodytes.
ItsScienceBitch 9 months ago 88
@ItsScienceBitch Hear hear...the gov't basically killed the guy. Totally savage.
cuntylishus 9 months ago
@ItsScienceBitch the Tories would gladly do it all over again, if given a voter mandate.
roidroid 9 months ago
Terrible victim of circumstance.
Corey897 9 months ago 2
BOMBE
MegaHazzer123 9 months ago
did Turing even get a posthumous OBE or a Knighthood or even an honorable mention in the Royal Society or is this even possible?
homousios 9 months ago
@homousios He received an OBE for his wartime work and was made a fellow of the Royal Society, I don't think they give out posthumous knighthoods.
A couple of years ago he also received an official apology for the way he was treated from the PM on behalf of the British government.
somename99 9 months ago
Would youtube comments pass the Turing test I wonder.
hedbiter 9 months ago 36
@hedbiter ha ha... I wonder that myself sometimes!
FavScientist 9 months ago 13
@FavScientist Thanks for the videos, I love them but its a crime that you don't have one about Nikola Tesla.
13baldjj 9 months ago
@13baldjj Tesla was more of an engineer than a scientist.
shaurz 9 months ago
@13baldjj From watching youtube videos, i get the impression that Nikola Tesla's greatest invention was the tinfoil hat.
:-/
roidroid 9 months ago
@roidroid He was the inventor of Alternating current. AC is what enables us to use pylons that stretch for hundreds of miles and power homes. He was also a very interesting person- believing in his invention when others said it won't work.
13baldjj 9 months ago
@13baldjj oh i know who he is and what he did, i think most people do.
i'm just saying that his LOUDEST fans tend to be quite crazy, and annoyingly numerous. Haven't you noticed?
roidroid 9 months ago
@roidroid No I haven't notice. Also, I doubt that most people know anything about it other than his name.
13baldjj 9 months ago
@13baldjj Tesla was also better than Edison in every way. He even discovered a way to transmit electricity wirelessly, but the electric companies wouldn't let him.
werothegreat 9 months ago
@FavScientist thats exactly what a robot would say!
thinkingsongs1 9 months ago 18
@thinkingsongs1 LOL it's true. I've had 'conversations' with chat robots and they definitely would've said that.
eggroll9000 9 months ago
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FavScientist 9 months ago 32