Turing as a Runner (1999)

Posted by happy-go-lucky on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:39PM
from the www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk dept.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/Turing_running.html

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by elyseum on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:37PM (#21465527)

People should organise a running contest to honor him and call it “The Turing Compete”.

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by JadeNB on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:54PM (#21465716)

They could send it on the road, and call it the touring Turing Compete ….

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by kjhughes on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:48PM (#21465644)

There was a CMU CS intramural basketball team in the '80s called "The Turing Machine".

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by schoen on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:54PM (#21465719)

I don't know what Turing's view of cricket was, but you could imagine holding a Turing Test cricket event in his honor.

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by gameswithgo on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:59PM (#21466498)

"His time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern marathon times does not look so great "

yes it does!

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by fancyfredbot on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:52PM (#21467863)

This is in the context of Olympic qualification. Today I believe you need to run under 2 hours 11.5 minutes to qualify.

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by tecleandor on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:19PM (#21466726)

Yep!

That's a top 50 on Madrid Marathon and a Top 500 (out of 45000 finishers) for the New York Marathon.

I'd say that's pretty nice! I mean, not Olympic (or maybe yes, depending on the country), but pretty solid.

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by cafard on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:43PM (#21467016)

You're right. An awful lot of good recreational runners would be delighted by that time.

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by pedrow on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:08PM (#21465877)

Also related, this reminiscence by Alan Garner, the author. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my...

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Re:Turing as a Runner (1999) by lidHanteyk on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:10PM (#21466631)

My favorite story is the game that Turing invented with one of his chess-and-running buddies (Champernowne?) where one would have to jog around the house after each chess move.

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