Turing

//ˈtʊɹɪŋ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname of Germanic origin.
  2. 2
    Alan Turing (1912–1954), a British logician and early computer scientist.
  3. 3
    A programming language.

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alan mathison turing

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"The psychiatric diagnosis known as gender dysphoria can be induced in a cisgender person through the same hormone therapy that treats it in transgender people, as it was by the British government in Alan Turing, causing him to commit suicide."

Etymology

(programming language): Named after Alan Turing.

Related phrases

Turing SlipTuring completeTuring computable functionTuring degreeTuring equivalentTuring functionTuring instabilityTuring jumpTuring machineTuring patternTuring reductionTuring switch

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