Movie Choices

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Clarissa

January 17, 2015

N and I decided to go to the movies.

“There is this movie Selma that everybody says is great. It’s about MLK and the Civil Rights movement, very topical. And there is a movie about some guy called Tubing or Turing. . .”

After hearing the name “Turing”, N started making incoherent but happy noises, indicating an immediate readiness to be reunited with a movie about this fellow. He also delivered a small lecture on something called “Turing machine”, from which I gathered that Turing is very meaningful to programmers.

So the Turing movie it is.

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9 responses to “Movie Choices”

el

January 17, 2015

I heard about this machine too. 🙂 Tell us how it was, and if it’s good – the movie’s name.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 17, 2015
  
  It’s called The Imitation Game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
  
  And I will post a review!
  
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matt

January 17, 2015

Another great movie if you are going out again soon is American Sniper. Not what you might expect. Clint Eastwood does a pretty good job highlighting the complexity of war I thought. And yeah, Turing was a bad ass (in a geeky way) from what I kow about him.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 17, 2015
  
  NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS!
  
  🙂 🙂
  
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  1. Shakti
    
    January 17, 2015
    
    Just don’t access Wikipedia. 🙂
    
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valter07

January 17, 2015

Watch Turing, it is good.

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DWeird

January 17, 2015

I am torn between a want to gush and one to respect your no-spoilers request. Suffice to say, it will be difficult to make a boring movie out of a life that interesting.

If anyone has the time and inclination, I would also completely recommend the original Turing machine paper (at, say http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html). It has this hot knife through butter quality of approaching problems that makes it a surprisingly breezy read.

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Stringer Bell

January 17, 2015

American Sniper is rubbish. That is all.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 17, 2015
  
  We watched the trailer for American Sniper and it’s not our thing at all. Whish is not surprising. Did anybody really expect me to like something by Clint Eastwood?
  
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