Sexy, sexy man-on-man math.

Oh, and this

yeomanfarmer: fusillade762: Oh, and this

That's not a real sign is it? I'm on a mobile and I can't tell by the pixels. It probably is.

Poe's Law, baby. The rainbow flag she's holding is a hint, though.

optikeye: [www.onemoregadget.com image 630x441]

http://www.onemoregadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/snowwhite_mac b ook_sticker.jpg

Godamnyousomuch.

I've kept out of the Apple/PC - iOS/Android wars since Jobs' death (and before that, largely), but that picture actually pisses me off - you got the reaction you were looking for ;)

/all art or 'shop has to do is elicit a response, and that makes it good

Derek Jacobi is dissapoint.

Consider this your warning: there will be math

And gay sex. Don't forget the gay sex.

Oh, good, another movie pretending that the most flamboyant character in a group of hundreds of people was the sole person to make any contribution to the group's goals, and that that contribution took the form of mystical visions of floating numbers sparked by randomly noticing some trivial bullshiat or other.

I'm sure it will be great.

Poor guy's probably turin over in his grave

and subby is clearly a robot

Will there be a test?

Jim_Callahan: another movie pretending that the most flamboyant character in a group of hundreds of people was the sole person to make any contribution to the group's goals,

Turing's work on code breaking not only isn't all he did, it's not even close to the most far ranging stuff he did. He came up with the theoretical underpinnings of computer science, made some book advances in logic and some other stuff. Oh and Turning wasn't at all flamboyant.

A movie about Kurt Goedel could be interesting. So could movies about quite a few mathematicians.

WhyteRaven74: A movie about Kurt Goedel could be interesting.

Hollywood started on one, but it isn't complete.

padraig: Consider this your warning: there will be math

And gay sex. Don't forget the gay sex.

Then chemical castration and suicide. :(

This could be pretty good... DiCaprio's a great actor with a discerning eye for quality scripts. I just wonder if/how they are gonna portray his personal life...

// much respect for a great man
// Turing, not the guy from Growing Pains

dickfreckle: optikeye: [www.onemoregadget.com image 630x441]

http://www.onemoregadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/snowwhite_mac b ook_sticker.jpg

Godamnyousomuch.

I've kept out of the Apple/PC - iOS/Android wars since Jobs' death (and before that, largely), but that picture actually pisses me off - you got the reaction you were looking for ;)

/all art or 'shop has to do is elicit a response, and that makes it good

Except that it's an actual product being sold...there are lots more, too.

Here ya go. (new window) (That also includes iPad and iPod/iPhone stickers of a similar nature.)

WhyteRaven74: Jim_Callahan: another movie pretending that the most flamboyant character in a group of hundreds of people was the sole person to make any contribution to the group's goals,

Turing's work on code breaking not only isn't all he did, it's not even close to the most far ranging stuff he did. He came up with the theoretical underpinnings of computer science, made some book advances in logic and some other stuff. Oh and Turning wasn't at all flamboyant.

Turing wasn't the only one to come up with the Turing Machine. He just came up with the easy-reader version. He also screwed the pooch on AI for the next however many hundred years.

pennyrave: DiCaprio's a great actor with who has gained a discerning eye for quality scripts after being in dreck like The Beach.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

The movie better get this right:


Biuro Szyfrów
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Biuro Szyfrów ([ˈbʲurɔ ˈʂɨfruf] ( listen), Polish for "Cipher Bureau") was the interwar Polish General Staff's agency charged with both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptology (the study of ciphers and codes, particularly for the purpose of "breaking" them).

// got to play with an Enigma machine for a little while, very cool.

The precursor of the agency that would become the Cipher Bureau was created in May 1919, during the Polish-Soviet War (1919-21), and played a vital role in securing Poland's survival in that war.

In mid-1931, the Cipher Bureau was formed by the merger of pre-existing agencies. In December 1932, the Bureau began breaking Germany's Enigma ciphers. Over the next seven years, Polish cryptologists overcame the growing structural and operating complexities of the plugboard-equipped Enigma. The Bureau also broke Soviet cryptography.

Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau revealed its Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to representatives of French and British military intelligence, which had been unable to make any headway against Enigma. This Polish intelligence-and-technology transfer would give the Allies an unprecedented advantage (Ultra) in their ultimately victorious prosecution of World War II.

Awww crap, misplaced slashies

crinz83: Poor guy's probably turin over in his grave

Aw, shiat. Would you believe a double?

IoSaturnalia: Hollywood started on one, but it isn't complete.

*golf clap*

Nurglitch: Turing wasn't the only one to come up with the Turing Machine. He just came up with the easy-reader version.

That's true, he wasn't the only person to come up with them, he just came up with an easy way to think about them and work with them. Stuff like the halting problem is awesome stuff. Then again I love logic and the more out there topics of math, like the continuum hypothesis, which doesn't exactly have anything to do with Turing, but any time you get into issues of dealing with infinities and what you can say about them, you do run into issues of logic.

PizzaJedi81: pennyrave: DiCaprio's a great actor with who has gained a discerning eye for quality scripts after being in dreck like The Beach.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

The Beach seems like a movie where DiCaprio was still figuring out how to be a movie star and Boyle was trying to figure out how to direct a studio movie. I thought there were good moments, but a lot of trial and error.

However, a few years after that flick, both of them seemed to hit their stride.

stoli n coke: However, a few years after that flick, both of them seemed to hit their stride.

I'm not disagreeing. I've loved all of the Leo output I've seen recently, Shutter Island and Inception, specifically.

Nurglitch: Turing wasn't the only one to come up with the Turing Machine. He just came up with the easy-reader version

He wasn't the first one to prove what he proved- the Turing machine was just the first such proof that had a clear analog to mechanical processes. There's a good reason why it's called "The Church-Turing Thesis" (or, more rarely, the "Chuch-Turing-Kleene Thesis". His role in computational mathematics is perfectly remarkable.

All that said, yes, this movie will be terrible. Honestly, if they avoid the math entirely and focus on his role in the war, his love life and eventual suicide due to his mistreatment by the government, they'll have a much better movie.

Or they could just do a film version of Cryptonomicon. What could possibly not work about that?

I actually liked this movie of his:



And, it had a smokin' Kate:



Well, actually it had two!

Jim_Callahan: Oh, good, another movie pretending that the most flamboyant character in a group of hundreds of people was the sole person to make any contribution to the group's goals, and that that contribution took the form of mystical visions of floating numbers sparked by randomly noticing some trivial bullshiat or other.

I'm sure it will be great.

Welcome to every movie ever made.

WhyteRaven74: A movie about Kurt Goedel could be interesting. So could movies about quite a few mathematicians.

Why not do both in one film, Link Mad Men Dream of Turing machines (new window)

padraig: Consider this your warning: there will be math

And gay sex. Don't forget the gay sex.

Or at least don't gloss over he was gay, was prosecuted into depression, chemically castrated and committed suicide. This needs to be a farking tragedy not a triumph.

Turing_Machine: This is a good thing.

You sound like a robot.

WhyteRaven74: Turing's work on code breaking not only isn't all he did, it's not even close to the most far ranging stuff he did. He came up with the theoretical underpinnings of computer science, made some book advances in logic and some other stuff. Oh and Turning wasn't at all flamboyant.

Flamboyant in the sense of having a relatively outgoing personality, not being a mincing fairy. Poor choice of words on my part, I forget that word has oddball connotations. The guy got into arguments frequently, had different sexual behavior than his colleagues, has been dramatized in a couple works of popular fiction already, etc. Same principle as the reasons they made a movie about Nash.

And, yes, he did important work. Will it be in the movie? No. This is Hollywood, it's going to be entirely or almost entirely about the intelligence work with maybe a bit about the governments being dickish.

Maybe I'm being overly harsh and it'll be a subdued biography of the man's life that keeps the dates straight, shows people doing the actual grinding labor of science, and so on. My money's on not, though. I mean, it's got Leo diCaprio in it, someone is going to chase him down a series of hallways with a handgun at least once.

simplicimus: So, how will we know it's really DiCaprio?

Maybe there's a test we could give him

Relatively Obscure: Wrong choice.

This is the correct choice...

Lawrence Waterhouse approves

/so does Rudy

This is unfortunate. The main reason (by far) to watch DiCaprio movies is to see his sexy costars topless. Now, I'm not saying his costars won't be sexy, and I'm not saying they won't be topless, but I just don't wanna see 'em very much.

Plus, there's plenty of good stuff to read about Turing, I don't need to watch a way over-fictionalized movie.

PizzaJedi81: pennyrave: DiCaprio's a great actor with who has gained a discerning eye for quality scripts after being in dreck like The Beach.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Actually, my view is that DiCaprio was a great actor who almost had his career destroyed by a single movie. He made some really good films before Titanic, and he made some really great films in the last decade, now that he has the power to chose/create his own roles. The Beach was made literally in the wake of Titanic and suffered accordingly.