Don't miss this enormously interesting film about real - life British cryptanalyst Alan
Turing who helped crack the Nazi's ENIGMA CODE during WWII.
Benedict Cumberbatch startles as the prickly, personally enigmatic
Turing who had secrets of his own: a secret homosexual, an illegal state of being at the time in England, Turing was eventually convicted of the crime, chemically castrated, which may have precipitated his suicide at the age of 41.
(11/19) THE IMITATION GAME Another Brit blows our minds — Benedict Cumberbatch may be distantly related to his tragic character, theoretical mathematician Alan
Turing who put his flair for numbers to good use in WWII by building on the work of Polish mathematicians to crack the Nazi Enigma Code!
The whole cast is great but Cumberbatch is flawless, offering
a Turing who is both annoying and affecting.
How better to do this than to say that the creator of the universe listens to you whenever you speak, loves you, and will bring you to a happy place after you die while tor -
turing those who wrong you forever?
That person was Alan
Turing who was the genius behind deciphering the German enigma codes.
Not exact matches
All in all, the attempts of Sanders and Cummings» fellow Oversight Democrats have largely been ignored by
Turing and Valeant, and also by Chaffetz,
who ultimately sets the Oversight Committee's schedule.
When I thought about the Shkreli situation and the Valeant situation where you have folks
who, in the instance of Shkreli and
Turing, buy a drug that's been sold for 60 years at the price range of $ 13.50, then overnight to raise it to $ 750 per pill — and we're talking about life - saving drugs — that really concerned me.
I know that Shkreli and Valeant and
Turing are the extreme end, but there are those
who are at the other end are still raising prices that have no relationship to R&D and have no relationship to a reasonable return to investors.
At the hearing, Dr. David Kimberlin,
who specializes in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spoke of a situation in September, around the time Daraprim's price went up after
Turing bought the rights to the drug, in which he found barriers to getting the drug because the monthly cost for four tablets suddenly spiked to $ 3,000 from $ 54.
Forgetting that simple rhyme may have been the undoing of Martin Shkreli, the biotech short - seller turned controversial CEO of
Turing Pharmaceuticals
who was arrested Thursday.
«Telegram is definitely much more crazy than some of the bigger ICOs we have seen,» says Sid Kalla, a founder of ICO consultancy Smith and Crown,
who now works on token protocol - design as a founder at the
Turing Group.
If not Mylan's Bresch, it's
Turing Pharmaceuticals» Martin Shkreli,
who jacked up the price of Daraprim — used to treat life - threatening infections — from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a pill.
Martin Shkreli, the
Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC executive
who drew criticism in August over a dramatic jump in a prescription drug price, made headlines Thursday for a different kind of price increase: a seven-fold surge in the shares of a microcap pharmaceutical company.
It is alleged that what brought Valeant down was not its own activities but the actions of Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager
who is now chief executive officer of
Turing Pharmaceuticals.
It wasn't cold hearted atheists
who hounded
Turing to suicide, it was your precious believers.
He went on to defend the price gouge, saying that his company,
Turing Pharmaceuticals, needed to continue to profit and that anyone
who really needed the drug would be able to afford it.
Coq is coming back, the Flame is
turing out to be pretty good cover, and Chambers is the guy
who has to step up to the plate and grab the no2 spot from Flamini.
It's too much to talk about all that here, so I will limit my discussion to how Ava, the robot, seduces and basically destroys Caleb,
who was chosen by Nathan, his employer, to interact with her to see if she passes the
Turing test, which examines if a machine has consciousness and is indistinguishable from a human.
In 1950,
Turing published «Computing Machinery and Intelligence,» written largely in response, not to fellow mathematicians but to neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson,
who in 1949 famously declared, «Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain.»
In
TURING»S CATHEDRAL, available in March, renowned science historian George Dyson follows the eccentric, brilliant engineers and computer coders who made Turing's design a reality — and in the process paved the way for the hydrogen
TURING»S CATHEDRAL, available in March, renowned science historian George Dyson follows the eccentric, brilliant engineers and computer coders
who made
Turing's design a reality — and in the process paved the way for the hydrogen
Turing's design a reality — and in the process paved the way for the hydrogen bomb.
Journeying into the nature of consciousness he is led by a Francis - Crick - like character, someone
who must be Alan
Turing and finally Charles Darwin.
Now we need
Turing Test 2.0,» says Aladdin Ayesh,
who organised a symposium entitled Towards a Comprehensive Intelligence Test at the AI and Simulated Biology conference in York, UK, in April.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed this week that Yang Chen Ning, 94,
who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, and Andrew Yao (Yao Qizhi), 70, the A.M.
Turing Award winner in 2000, were recently inducted into the academy's ranks as domestic academicians rather than foreign.
It centres on Tom Jericho, a brilliant student of
Turing,
who breaks one of the toughest ciphers, only to break himself after the end of a brief affair with a woman at BP.
He has seen bounties as high as $ 500,000 offered for software to break it — enough to attract people with the skills to the task and five times more than the Loebner Grand Prize offers to the programmer
who designs a computer that can truly pass the
Turing test.
Elbot: There are some people
who would not pass the
Turing test themselves.
Dyson's
Turing's Cathedral focuses on the creative geniuses at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
who invented computer code.
Alan
Turing, British mathematician and logician,
who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis,...
The reception was accompanied by a panel discussion featuring
Turing Award Winner Vinton Cerf and Nobel Laureate in Physics William Phillipps
who were joined by alumni Yeka Aponte (Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings) and Kristina Mallory (Heidelberg Laureate Forum).
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I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis,
who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of
Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.
Garland's cinematic
Turing Test, Ex Machina, featured a genius billionaire inventor
who describes Ghostbusters, as, «that movie where a ghost gives Dan Aykroyd oral sex.»
Based on the life of logician and mathematician Alan
Turing, the Bletchley Park genius
who broke the Enigma code but was later pilloried for his homosexuality, the film is conventional in every way save Cumberbatch,
who, frankly, had never particularly appealed to me before now.
As brilliantly portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch («The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug»)
who brings richness and complexity to the role,
Turing is a brilliant but highly eccentric individual whose aloof personality is off - putting to his superiors and his co-workers.
Yet the horrific circumstances of his chemical castration and the very real realities of his life as a gay man are sidestepped by the faux thriller set - up of the film, a device that conveniently allows a heterosexual writer like Moore (
who's Oscar acceptance speech granted us insight into how his version of
Turing lacks any on - screen interiority as a gay man) to touch upon the subject as a clichéd trope.
The film examines the life of Alan
Turing, a codebreaker
who is credited with breaking the German Enigma Code during WWII.
Lauded by Winston Churchill as being the man
who made the greatest single contribution to the war effort, the film is both a celebration of
Turing's life and an infuriating look at the circumstances that turned him from a hero into a pariah.
Everything adds up - just like a perfectly solved mathematical equation - in «The Imitation Game», a fantastic movie about the life of Alan
Turing, the man
who helped crack the notorious German enigma code during World War II (and ultimately won the war).
The story of brilliant British mathematician Alan
Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch),
who played a key role in...
Alongside him (left) is Charles Dance as Commander Alastair Denniston, a fellow decrypter,
who helped
Turing spearhead Britain's efforts to break the Nazi code.
Director Morten Tyldum («Headhunters») and writer Graham Moore sketch out
Turing's initial conflicts with his Bletchley colleagues (led by Matthew Goode, with Charles Dance and Mark Strong playing the bosses) and his friendship with fellow codebreaker Joan Clarke (nicely underplayed by Keira Knightley),
who was briefly his fiancée.
Dance is the perfect foil for Cumberbatch, one
who loathes
Turing but honors the chain of command, even when it instructs him to let
Turing have his way.
The Imitation Game, based on Andrew Hodges» biography of Alan
Turing, begins with a frosty interview between
Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) a young maths» scholar and Commander Denniston (Charles Dance)
who is in charge of the team trying to break Enigma.
Read Only Memories is a narrative adventure game heavily inspired by Hideo Kojima's»90s cult - classic Snatcher, putting players in the shoes of a down - on - their - luck reporter
who joins forces with a sentient robot named
Turing.
From Benedict Cumberbatch to Keira Knightley, casting director Nina Gold worked to find actors
who could believably recreate the period setting of the Alan
Turing biopic.
The director of Norwegian crime thriller Headhunters helms this World War II true story of Alan
Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch)- the English mathematician and logician
who set out to break the Enigma code used by the Nazis but was persecuted for his sexuality.
His co-star Charles Dance,
who plays
Turing's boss Commander Denniston, said of Benedict: «If he doesn't win an award, or a big gong, or preferably a statue of a little gold man, I will be astonished.»
The film follows
Turing, a mathematical genius, as he leads a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers,
who are tasked with cracking the so - called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.