Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “History”
August 16, 2012
Codebreaker - A new film about the life of Alan Turing
CODEBREAKER tells the story of one of the most important people of the 20th century. Alan Turing set in motion the computer age and his World War II codebreaking helped save two million lives. Yet few people have heard his name, know his tragic story, or understand his legacy. In 1954, Turing committed suicide at age 41 after being forced to undergo hormone therapy to “fix” his sexual orientation. He left behind a lasting legacy and lingering questions about what else he might have accomplished if society had embraced his unique genius instead of rejecting it.
August 13, 2012
Bayes's Theorem is more powerful than Jesus
Richard Carrier puts forward a fantastic approach to verifying history in his latest book :
Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
“… historian Richard C. Carrier proposes Bayes’s theorem as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. He demonstrates that valid historical methods—not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study—can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes’s theorem.
April 9, 2009
Visualization of SBCL development history since 2000
My curiousity got the better of me tonight. Video behind the link.