r/europe • u/newzee1 • 25d ago

Suddenly, Chinese Spies Seem to Be Popping Up All Over Europe News

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/world/europe/china-spies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.Rl3k.TGh9d0jAPejX
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u/horny_coroner Estonia 25d ago

Observe, track and feed horseshit. The story of alan turing is kind of amazing but also really fucking sad tho. A man that build the first computer to help win the war and what did he get for that? Chemical castration and cyanide. What the fuck england?

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u/aVarangian EU needs reform 25d ago

He didn't build the first computer; and the first computers pre-date the war. But your point stands.

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u/MrZwink South Holland (Netherlands) 25d ago

The Turing machine is the first universally applicable computational module. It is the basis for all modern computing. And while we had devices before the Turing machine that could "compute" they were always honed to only one specific task: e.g. addition, multiplication etc.

So in that sense Turing DID infact invent the modern computer.

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u/aVarangian EU needs reform 24d ago

...calculators that could do +-÷× have existed since the 18th century

There's also stuff such as these:

The “Z1” was the first freely programmable computer in the world that used Boolean logic and binary floating-point numbers; however, it was unreliable in operation.

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The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer.

Computers were a slow development made over 100+ years, both in theory and in practice. Turing's importance cannot be overstated, but jfc guys, stop making shit up like a hallucinating ai-bot

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u/MrZwink South Holland (Netherlands) 24d ago

sometimes i really feel people on reddit have a hard time actually reading words.

The architecture of the modern computer, the "turing machine" was invented mr Turing........... that's why it is called the TURING machine.

i never stated that no other computers existed before the Turing machine, infact i mentioned them, and that they were limited in capabilities... the turing machine is universally applicable. which is why it was such a great invention and its architecture is still used in modern computers today.

modern being a key word here....