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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 04/07/2012 : 23:32:12
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 00:18:25 [Permalink]
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| Hint: A word meaning something like "riddle" might be described as being central to his life. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 01:08:02 [Permalink]
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| Hint: May have had an "autism spectrum" condition. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 01:26:43 [Permalink]
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
435 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 02:25:41 [Permalink]
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| Dr. Derrick MacFabe |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
-Barry Williams, co-founder, Australian Skeptics |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 02:30:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
Dr. Derrick MacFabe
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Is not. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 02:44:39 [Permalink]
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| Hint: It's been said (in nearly equivalent words) that one of this person's greatest life accomplishments was to come up with the idea that anything at all could be inferred on general principles from contradictions. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 02:55:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
Dr. Derrick MacFabe
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By the way, I see how you must have put two hints together to get that. Very clever, but the result of a coincidence, as you'll eventually see. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 03:35:12 [Permalink]
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| Hint: This person once co-wrote a seminal paper on factors controlling cell differentiation and embryonic development. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 07:56:25 [Permalink]
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| Hint: Eliza wasn't very intelligent, but many people think she passed his exam. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 08:24:20 [Permalink]
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| Hint: This is his year. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 08:36:07 [Permalink]
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Hint:
Had he not done what did he
(my opinion doth determine),
All his countrymen -- and we --
Might now be speaking German. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 09:04:06 [Permalink]
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2012 : 09:21:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Alan Turing
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Yipee! Yes! And 2012 is Alan Turing's Centennial year of birth. This great Mathematician and scientist is responsible for the basic design of nearly all our digital devices. His work with early computers, including the Turing-Welchman Bombe, broke the Nazi's Enigma machine's code, making it possible for the Allies to literally read Hitler's mail.
After the war, Turing was convicted of homosexuality, and was chemically castrated. A couple of years later, he killed himself by taking cyanide. Only recently, the British Government have apologized for their dreadful treatment of the man who may very well have saved their country.
Explaining the hints:
1. Riddle = enigma.
2. He's suspected of having had Asperger syndrome, part of the "autism spectrum."
3. The photo showed the tower where Turing worked at the Bletchley Park decoders' station.
4. (From Wiki):Jack Good opined:
Turing's most important contribution, I think, was of part of the design of the bombe, the cryptanalytic machine. He had the idea that you could use, in effect, a theorem in logic which sounds to the untrained ear rather absurd; namely that from a contradiction, you can deduce everything.[39] |
5. His 1952 paper was on chemicals that control morphogenesis.
6. "ELIZA" is a simple, primitive computer program that replies to text with a sort of mockery of a type of psychiatry. ELIZA fooled some people into thinking they were dealing with a human, thus (for those people) passing the Turing Test.
7. 2012 is Allan Turing Year.
8. Poem. I think he likely saved Britain. With his help in cracking Enigma, essentially the Allies could have said, "All your U-boats, all your bombers, all your troop movements, are belong to us." Of course, they didn't let on to the anyone about knowing the Nazi codes. When they intercepted plans to bomb the city of Coventry, Churchill himself made the decision not to evacuate Coventry, but instead to sacrifice that city to protect the advantage of being able to decipher codes without the Nazis suspecting. It was that enormous of a military advantage. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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