🧵 Was Alan Turing overrated
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:54:22 UTC No. 16099687
I feel like he was overblown and heavily pushed for political reasons (homosexual + atheist) and not actual accomplishments. Did he actually contribute to science and single handedly win WW2 like Reddit says he did?
I know Charles Babbage invented the first computer 100 years before Turing, but he was a devout Christian straight white male like every other scientist, so the regime downplays his scientific achievements.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:58:44 UTC No. 16099696
go back
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:05:28 UTC No. 16099708
>>16099687
He’s a fraud and only pushed because he’s a fag.
Ada Lovelace is considered the first "programmer", 100 years before Turing, this doesn't make sense to start with. That's because she designed the program for Babbage's machine, that curiously was very close to the Turing machine.
Then, Turing never actually built his machine, the ENIAC, first working computer was created by John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert, the two most important people you never heard about in computer science.
For the concepts and maths behind it, like the algorithms and turing completeness, Von Neumann played a huge part in it, including creating the architecture that made feasible what Turing described theoretically.
Alan Turing is as much the inventor of the computer as Thomas Edison is the inventor of the light bulb. Only shilled so hard because he liked aids dick up his ass.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:08:17 UTC No. 16099712
why was he gae
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:12:24 UTC No. 16099723
>>16099712
Turing killed himself after he was caught at age 50 fucking an underage boy and sentenced to chemical castration. They spun the story to make him a hero to the leftist types.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:17:49 UTC No. 16099738
>>16099687
100% overrated. He was just another gear in the machine that was punished for believing his gay ass got the same privileges as the oligarchs.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:21:54 UTC No. 16099744
>>16099723
LMAO, all the leftists check-boxes.
robowaifutechnician at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:37:01 UTC No. 16099767
If anything he's underrated. He foresaw robots learning from the stage of a child. He was ahead of his time and he helped win the war.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:59:15 UTC No. 16099798
>>16099723
HE WAS NINETEEN YOU SICK FUCK.
Technically under the age-of-consent for rump ranging in Blighty at the time, yes.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:20:36 UTC No. 16099846
>>16099708
Edison did invent the light bulb, cope moar
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:32:36 UTC No. 16100619
>>16099846
>20 Years prior
>Edison's bulb was primarily his design
Mega-cope.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:52:55 UTC No. 16100650
>>16099687
>>16099767
No, "clever little nerds" did not win the war. The enormous industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet defense in depth won the war. You could say the nerds and the scientists helped reduce allied casaulties and gain a certain tactical edge, but they did not decide the winners and the losers of the war.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:13:20 UTC No. 16100675
>>16099687
> Did he actually contribute to science
he did some nice work but other people would have done it anyway. for example his “Turing machines” were also being invented at the exact same time by Emil Post
>and single handedly win WW2
absolutely not. still, he must have distinguished himself because he got an O.B.E. afterward. britain does not release wartime records, so we will probably never know the details
>>16099708
>Ada Lovelace is considered the first "programmer",
not really, no. even back then she was a diversity hire
>the ENIAC, first working computer
konrad zuse had something working before that, but I suppose we haven’t established the goalposts
>Alan Turing is as much the inventor of the computer as Thomas Edison is the inventor of the light bulb.
this is unfair. edison delegated a lot of hard work to his employees sure but he was the one behind the “let’s make an actual usable lightbulb” project
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:15:55 UTC No. 16100677
>>16099798
>implying this was his first buttfucking or even the first time he got caught
oh come on. this is the land of Jimmy Savile we’re talking about
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:21:49 UTC No. 16100681
>>16100650
Don't forget top tier logistics.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:41:48 UTC No. 16100794
>>16099708
>he forgot Zuse
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:34:27 UTC No. 16101514
>>16100677
It's what he got punished for though. You know what due process is? Also he was 38. Didn't live to see 50. Always gotta skew the numbers.