Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Sunday, April 18, 2021

Liza Mundy Breaks the Code and Misses the Message

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Write about what you know. Write from your experience. Those two mandates are easily given to anyone who wants to write for a living. They a...

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Turing Never Said That

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“I think that sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” The line is spoken twic...

Sunday, February 3, 2019

CODES AND COINS

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Coins were invented about 600 BCE, about 3000 years after money (as we understand it) was invented. Within three generations, by 500 BCE, c...

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Charles Babbage: Codebreaker

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Few names stand out in the history of computing as do Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine. The Difference Engine was only a dem...

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Variations on Enigma

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Verifying secret information is a challenge. After enjoying the movie Imitation Game, I went to the library for books on Bletchley Park a...

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Successful Imitation of Alan Turing

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“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” The take-away line from The Imitation...

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