We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done

[sovay]

Alan Turing was born a hundred and ten years ago. I have just discovered there will be a new musical about him at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and learned that the flowers which go up around his statue every year at this time are for charity. I would drink an Enigma cocktail in his honor, especially if made with a peat monster like Corryvreckan. asakiyume is talking about imitation games. If you want to remember him, look forward. Enjoy strawberries and cream even when your country would rather you choose cyanide. Get arrested for living in the future we should all have already. If he wouldn't have thought of it, so much the better. Do something really new.

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[sovay]

Is this his writing?

It is! It's one of four postcards he sent his former grad student Robin Gandy in the spring of 1954, collectively titled "Messages from the Unseen World." Three of them are part of the Turing archive at King's College, Cambridge. I don't know what happened to the fourth postcard. I went to see if Andrew Hodges said anything in Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983), but it's been packed. I should have kept it out through his birthday.

I LOVE this. LOVE it.

*hugs*

Matmos used the text for their "Messages from the Unseen World."

What is written on the left side? I can make out "?Does the" and then I want to say "generative [or: quantitative (?)] habit decrease?" but I feel like I'm reading it wrong.

"? Does the gravitation constant decrease ?"

[asakiyume]

Thank youuu! Now I'm off to click that link.

Messages from the Unseen World

[asakiyume]

Okay I'm buying that.

Re: Messages from the Unseen World

[sovay]

Okay I'm buying that.

Matmos was the first music for Alan Turing I discovered. I still love that EP.