Locator: 49318ITALY.
I joined my wife and her friend for coffee at a local coffee shop. They have now departed.
In the background, a Fleetwood Mac song -- one of my wife's favorite groups "from back in the day" when we lived in Los Angeles. Brings back memories. Some of them bittersweet. Maybe melancholy. It doesn't help that I'm reading Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. ... well, it really doesn't matter, does it, the copyright date? It's probably the best book when it comes to Turing. It's my second time through the book, maybe the third time, but I've never really read the book closely, mostly skimmed through it. This time, reading it slowly, no plans to finish but will read what I want. [Later: in fact the copyright date is very, very important -- 1983.]
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Arduino
Link here. Even the wiki entry is too "challenging" to read, but this snippet was interesting:
Arduino is in the news today because it was just acquired by Qualcomm.
As good as being there, today. Across the alcove from me, on the wall -- La Victoria Arduino. Wiki.
Ivrea is a city / neighborhood in Turin, Italy, the major Italian city in the northwest arm of the country:
"Piedmont" -- simply a fancy name for foothills.
I think I became most cognizant of the "piedmont" when reading about the clay in North Carolina some months ago -- maybe a year ago -- but time passes quickly.
The Piedmont, one of twenty regions in Italy; its capital is Turin.
Going deeper into this rabbit hole. I recall Turin being mentioned early in the Covid-19 pandemic ... curious ...
Absolutely fascinating.
Oh, back to where I started, full circle:
This is not simply idle chatter -- well, I suppose it is -- I've been in Italy many, many times -- but I don't think I've ever been to Turin, but I've close. Wow, I miss Italy.
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AI Prompt
Why did Turing refer to it as the imitation game? Did Turing coin the phrase the imitation game?
