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The Origin of Computable Numbers: A Tale of Two Classics

Published on Aug 17, 20126890 Views

Turing, like Darwin, transformed scientific and human culture through a singularly disruptive work written in a brilliantly self-conscious style. I shall recount the stories of these two classics, con

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The Origin of Computable Numbers00:00
Turing and Darwin - 100:04
Turing and Darwin - 200:20
Turing and Darwin - 300:47
Turing and Darwin - 400:51
Turing and Darwin - 500:56
Turing and Darwin - 601:08
Scooping01:39
They took their time… - 105:50
They took their time… - 206:05
The revisions - 106:16
The revisions - 206:47
The contributions, in three words - 106:59
The contributions, in three words - 208:13
Universality09:13
Computational Thinking about Evolution13:10
Exponential growth13:29
The computer’s great-grandfather!15:02
Crypto against Lamarck15:44
Disbelieving Marco16:36
Evolvability: Evolution as Learning19:01
The mysterious case of evolution-inspired heuristics19:38
But sex itself is a mystery in evolution21:08
The parallel mysteries22:56
Mixability!23:32
Explaining Mixability24:35
Explaining Mixability (cont) - 125:29
Explaining Mixability (cont) - 225:49
The Argument for Mixability26:37
Mixability28:27
Turing’s most cited paper: - 129:17
Turing’s most cited paper: - 229:34
Reaction-diffusion model creates spatial stationary waves -130:47
Reaction-diffusion model creates spatial stationary waves -231:03
…and one of his least cited - 131:40
…and one of his least cited - 232:27
…and of course…32:38
Turing33:56
Alan and I34:29