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Whilst last weeks post was all about attending a conference, this weeks post is about things I am doing ready for the upcoming Histocrypt<\/a> at Oxford and Bletchley. I’d like to take a different approach and introduce some of the programs and videos I’ve been watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is a gem of a docudrama available on Amazon Prime. What I liked about it was the mix of interviews with people who knew Turing in both a personal relationship and also as a professional with their time at Bletchley. The acting and use of psychoanalysis sessions are a good platform with the drama and decent acting on all parts involved. I found myself watching this several times over picking over the names and events. This docudrama gives a less ‘dramatized’ impression of Alan Turing as seen in the Imitation game (not a bad film), and I can recommend watching this if you have access to amazon prime or Youtube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I to pick out a personal favorite moment it is the demonstration of the apparatus as describe in Turing’s paper ‘on computable numbers, with an application to the entscheidungsproblem’<\/a>, which shows what an amazing thinker Turing was and really ahead of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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