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date: "2024-08-18 08:08:12"
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title: Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday ...
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    alt: A statue of Alan Turing fashioned from slate set against a black and white photo of an office in Bletchley park
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<p style="padding:10px;">Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday to see where Alan Turing and many others did amazing work on early computers and cryptanalysis. As a computer scientist it has been on my bucket list for a really long time so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it. The bombe machines were fascinating. Mechanical machines (not computers as they were not general purpose/programmable) that brute forced enigma code cyphers by trying different combinations of circuits. They could try 37k combinations in 12 minutes. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BletchleyPark?src=hash" title="#BletchleyPark" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#BletchleyPark</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AlanTuring?src=hash" title="#AlanTuring" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#AlanTuring</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" title="#computers" class="u-url hashtag" rel="external nofollow noopener">#computers</a></p>