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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “I hate Sherlock Holmes, I hate that everyone likes Sherlock Holmes, I never want to hear about Sherlock Holmes ever again.”
NASA: “We built a robot named SHERLOC and sent it to Mars with WATSON!”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “For fuck’s sake, let me rest.”
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester
Sunday, 27. August. 2017
A lost collection of nearly 150 letters from the codebreaker Alan Turing has been uncovered in an old filing cabinet at the University of Manchester.
The correspondence, which has not seen the light of day for at least 30 years, contains very little about Turing’s tortured personal life. It does, however, give an intriguing insight into his views on America.
In response to an invitation to speak at a conference in the US in April 1953, Turing replied that he would rather not attend: “I would not like the journey, and I detest America.”
The letter, sent to Donald Mackay, a physicist at King’s College London, does not give any further explanation for Turing’s forthright views on America, nor do these views feature in any of the other 147 letters discovered earlier this year.
The correspondence, dating from early 1949 to Turing’s death in 1954, was found by chance when an academic cleared out an old filing cabinet in a storeroom at the University of Manchester. Turing was deputy director of the university’s computing laboratory from 1948, after his heroic wartime codebreaking at Bletchley Park.
Turing was a visionary mathematician and is regarded today as the father of modern computing who broke the Nazis’ second world war Enigma code. While his later life has been overshadowed by his conviction for gross indecency and his death aged 41 from cyanide poisoning, a posthumous pardon was granted by the Queen in 2013. His life was featured in the 2014 film the Imitation Game.
Prof Jim Miles, of the university’s school of computer science, said he was amazed to stumble upon the documents, contained in an ordinary-looking red paper file with “Alan Turing” scrawled on it.
“When I first found it I initially thought: ‘That can’t be what I think it is,’ but a quick inspection showed it was a file of old letters and correspondence by Alan Turing,” he said.
“I was astonished such a thing had remained hidden out of sight for so long. No one who now works in the school or at the university knew they even existed. It really was an exciting find and it is mystery as to why they had been filed away.”
The collection focuses mainly on Turing’s academic research, including his work on groundbreaking areas in AI, computing and mathematics, and invitations to lecture at some of America’s best-known universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It contains a single letter from GCHQ, for whom Turing worked during the war, asking the mathematician in 1952 if he could supply a photograph of himself for an official history of Bletchley Park that was being compiled by the American cryptographer William Friedman. In his reply to Eric Jones, GCHQ’s then director, Turing said he would send a picture for the “American rogues gallery”.
The collection also contains a handwritten draft BBC radio programme on artificial intelligence, titled “Can machines think?” from July 1951. The documents were sorted, catalogued and stored by the University of Manchester archivist James Peters and are now available to search online.
Peters said: “This is a truly unique find. Archive material relating to Turing is extremely scarce, so having some of his academic correspondence is a welcome and important addition to our collection.
“There is very little in the way of personal correspondence, and no letters from Turing family members. But this still gives us an extremely interesting account and insight into his working practices and academic life whilst he was at the University of Manchester.”
He added: “The letters mostly confirm what is already known about Turing’s work at Manchester, but they do add an extra dimension to our understanding of the man himself and his research.
“As there is so little actual archive on this period of his life, this is a very important find in that context. There really is nothing else like it.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/27/collection-letters-codebreaker-alan-turing-found-filing-cabinet)
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i will NOT rest until the entire world knows sherlock holmes is a gay man
Sherlock, on losing
ASiB: “Love is a chemical defect found on the losing side.” TAB: “So you see, Watson, this is a war we must lose.”
why is the tumblr app such a suffocating experience i just want to look at pictures of danny devito and forget im depressed for 15 minutes
...What?
Ok, I have questions, Sherlockology…
Firstly, just wanna put in this screenshot from their FAQ:
Ok, right, nice!
So I ended up on Angelo’s character page, which was nice…
And then…
Oh, that’s what he says in the- OH! Oh my god…
Uh, so if Sherlockology is entirely accurate, why does Angelo’s page have stuff from both ASiP and the Pilot…?
That literally makes no sense. None at all. Because the Pilot didn’t happen, unless, this is a clue. A sneaky, cheeky clue.
@sherlockshadow @ebaeschnbliah @221bloodnun @sarahthecoat
I don’t even know anymore but I’m taking the Pilot as Gospel.
Gah, I wish I knew and same :P
Pilot is truth! :)
(I feel like I should tag you in future Pilot EMP stuff I do, would you mind if I did that? :) )
(You can absolutely do that )
Um, another weird thing about the scene is that… Sherlock has never before (or after) signed his texts like THAT.
here, SH comes right after the period.
But… for as far as I know, that’s the only time it happens on the show
Or? Has it happened before?
I don’t recall it happening before, good eye! What kills me is the exact same message to Lestrade at the end of TFP. Like, why??
That message… It kind of feels like the whole series have been actually pointless… I mean, because it feels like we’re back in the start, and literally nothing has changed. Sherlock is solving cases and living alone. Okay, John has a daughter now but… I don’t want to say she isn’t important but she is just there, John sometimes forgets about her, even. Also, what kills me is that they’ve shown the very first scenes of John and Sherlock from ASIP during the final montage, and that feels kinda final :/
It really does. What was it all for? Honestly, to me, they literally gave us TPLOSH. Pining Sherlock, in love with John. It haunts me on the daily. They NEVER said they were correcting TPLOSH. Only using it as their inspiration and template. What more proof do we need?
I wasn’t using my heart or anything.
Okay I couldn't resist. Steven/Cib #1. (You write Steven so well!!!)
1) “I’m in love with you.”
Hey, thanks! I’m not really used to getting compliments on my writing (long history, long story), so you saying that makes me really, really happy.
This is in the Spooky Pine AU simply because I want it to be. Don’t feel like this is “canon” because if any ship in it is “canon”, it’s Jeremy/Parker. Fight me.
After being with him for over a century, Steven begins to notice things. Weird things. Like how they’re both so protective of each other. How many times they’ve killed for each other, which is even weirder considering Steven’s strict “no-killing” rule. How they sleep in the same bed despite the bond reaching a good fifty feet.
He figures it out one day in 1967 when they’re sitting on the couch watching Get Smart. Steven’s arm is around Cib’s shoulders, Cib is closely nestled in his side, and it’s perfectly normal for them.
“I’m in love with you,” Steven says out of nowhere. And, hey, he is.
“Took you long enough,” Cib says. “I figured that out, like, ten billion years ago.”
They sit and watch the show for another couple of minutes before Steven asks, “Well, aren’t you going to say that you love me too?”
“Demons don’t feel love, man. But I don’t, like, hate you.”
And nothing changes after that. Maybe they hold hands in public every once in a while and maybe they have their first kiss watching The Fearless Vampire Killers in the theater, and maybe they get kicked out of the theater right afterwards. But other than that, everything’s the same.
5,6,7 ≈ 9 inches
I love how the caption just gives us the inches and no explanation is needed
This just needs a GPS voiceover going “recalculating”
I finished one of my ten thousand wips in the studio
Couldn’t resist.
watson talking about mary morstan like, i was totally in love with her i guess but, oh darn, there was something preventing me from telling her so, how sad, oh well, guess i’ll have to go back to the incredible bachelor life that i live with my brilliant, striking, amazing flatmate with the sharp eyes that sparkle with delight and the long, fine fingers that possess a remarkable delicacy of touch and the…
