How Alan Turing Helped Win WWII and was Thanked with Criminal Prosecution for Being Gay

A few days ago, I posted a speech Marine General John Kelly gave to eulogize two brave Marines who greeted certain death with a handful of hot lead and a pair of wide open eyes.

Unofficially, Memorial Day weekend marks the start of summer, and the opening day for many pools and amusement parks. But more meaningfully, Memorial Day is the day that America sets aside to honor the soldiers who died in its wars.

NEW YORK CITY — The unofficial start of summer is not a weekend to be eaten up by chores, errands and obligations. Take this three-day weekend as an opportunity to set the tone for your entire summer by attending exciting events that will leave you feeling ready for the hot months to come. Take the highway to the danger zone

A man suspected of creating Bitcoin has issued a denial he did so. In 2011, New Yorker contributor Joshua Davis went on the hunt for Bitcoin's inventor. He came up empty handed. But he narrowed it down to several candidates whose interests and backgrounds made them pretty strong suspects.

By all accounts, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival is a runaway success.

That is a new paper of mine, co-authored with Michelle Dawson.  There is much more to Turing's classic essay than meets the eye.  The famous "test" is not a standard for distinguishing human from machine intelligence but rather one step in an argument showing that such a distinction is not as important as we might think.  Turing cleverly shows why the supposed test is misleading and the real qu