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There are some little gems in the article, one emphasizes what a badass Turing was. As if it wasn’t enough to essentially invent the field of theoretical compu
by WhitneyLand 2y ago
There are some little gems in the article, one emphasizes what a badass Turing was.
As if it wasn’t enough to essentially invent the field of theoretical computer science and save possibly millions of lives in the war, he then decided in 1952 to casually publish in the field of biology.
He had no formal training in biology, and when peer reviewers including the grandson of Charles Darwin commented on his paper “Turing seems to have ignored both sets of comments” lol.
Nevertheless the paper turned out to be groundbreaking and is still considered relevant today. Total badass.