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Turing as a Runner (1999)
- elyseum 7y agoPeople should organise a running contest to honor him and call it “The Turing Compete”.
- kjhughes 7y agoThere was a CMU CS intramural basketball team in the '80s called "The Turing Machine".
- schoen 7y agoI don't know what Turing's view of cricket was, but you could imagine holding a Turing Test cricket event in his honor.
- JadeNB 7y agoThey could send it on the road, and call it the touring Turing Compete ….
- pedrow 7y agoAlso related, this reminiscence by Alan Garner, the author. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my-hero-alan-garner https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my...
- gameswithgo 7y ago"His time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern marathon times does not look so great " yes it does!
- tecleandor 7y agoYep! That's a top 50 on Madrid Marathon and a Top 500 (out of 45000 finishers) for the New York Marathon. I'd say that's pretty nice! I mean, not Olympic (or maybe yes, depending on the country), but pretty solid.
- cafard 7y agoYou're right. An awful lot of good recreational runners would be delighted by that time.
- fancyfredbot 7y agoThis is in the context of Olympic qualification. Today I believe you need to run under 2 hours 11.5 minutes to qualify.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoMy favorite story is the game that Turing invented with one of his chess-and-running buddies (Champernowne?) where one would have to jog around the house after each chess move.