[pyentropy]

Fun fact: jgc (John Graham-Cumming) is the person that started the petition that forced the UK government to publicly apologize for its harsh treatment and persecution of Alan Turing.

[dang]

Related. Others?

Beware the Alan Turing fetish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702793 - Oct 2012 (63 comments)

The perl script that powered the Alan Turing petition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4207252 - July 2012 (7 comments)

UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3556763 - Feb 2012 (83 comments)

Beware the Alan Turing fetish - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260639 - Nov 2011 (41 comments)

The complete text of Gordon Brown's apology to Alan Turing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767301 - July 2011 (3 comments)

The Genius of Turing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151254 - Jan 2011 (23 comments)

The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670149 - June 2009 (76 comments)

[jgrahamc]

By far the best summary of the situation was my interview with Steven Levy: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-man-who-made-the-uk-say-im...

[YuriNiyazov]

The "Beware the Alan Turing Fetish" link doesn't point to an existing page anymore.

[jgrahamc]

Ah. It was an appeal to people to stop naming everything after Turing because the UK went a bit Turing mad for a while.

[nicholassmith]

A wise move to stop the UK becoming accidentally Turing complete.

[ykonstant]

A phenomenon one could aptly call Turing Mania (TM).

[malkia]

I didn't know that. Respect!