decision making processes (1 Viewer)

[h.hammer]

This recent information will i hope be of interest to all:
"Alan Turing and the human decision making process"
British mathematician devised a method to crack the German Navy's Enigma code during WW11.
The Enigma machine,which resembled a typewriter,contained multiple rotors that replaced each letter in the original message with a substitute.
A key step that helped Turing break the code involved the creation of a mathematical formula that assigned weight to evidence supporting the possibility that letters from different messages came from machines using the
same settings.Once the weight of evidence passed a certain threshold, Turing
made the decision that machines did indeed share the same settings.
The mathematical principles Turing developed to break Enigma are similar to the ones our own brain uses.This recent discovery has a message for all of us.
Before deciding to post or answer a post on the forum please think of yourself as an Enigma machine.
If the shoe fits::,feel free to wear it.
harvey

 

[Simpson & his donkey.]

Well what can we say here.Good information and very interesting .I thought the yanks got the enigma first in u571.Just kidding but I liked the movie.Simmo.

 

[Tony Neville]

Iam lucky enough to have been up close and personnel with an Enigma machine.

The reinactors who help out at the London show have one.

the most interesting part of the story is that the guy who has restored it to A1 condition found it in a skip!!!!. he was ona job (he is a builder) and as he flung some scrap in the skip thjought that was a very nice type writer! being a reinactor and his wife reinacts 1940s office clarks he thought that would work well in her display..............it was not until the end of the day that he had a good look. There it was code book, case everything!!! it is one of only a few.........and it was being thrown out with the rubbish!

He shows it at Military Odyssey every year in the UK and we are hoping they can make it back to the June show

Tony

 

[h.hammer]

Tony,
That is a wonderful story.I hope someday to get a glimpse of the real machine.
Perhaps K&C could produce a small diorama of Brits working on a model of the Enigma machine.It would certainly be at least as interesting as the "death of Heydrich"
best
Harvey