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Here in that
grand chasm
between my ears
where fear
and
ignorance reside

I seek to bridge
knowledge gaps
through any
and all means applied

Used to seek
chemical
enlightenment
but the crash
just was not
worth the high

So now I'm back
in the hole
from whence
I began

Struggling to live
with this ignorant
personal #enigma
I may be destined
to never fully understand

#vss365#poetry#poem

The elusive #enigma

defies classification

Constantly analyzed

Always subject to interpretation

Arbitrarily categorized
to be conveniently defined
by the label making assholes
self assigned
who drive opinions
in our pigeon hole society

The perpetual curse
of the rogue individual
who is uniquely inclined
to exist freely
outside the walls
of repressive conformity

#vss365#poetry#poem

#Enigma #history

"The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.

While Polish experts broke early versions of the Enigma code in the 1930s and built anti-Enigma machines, subsequent security upgrades by the Germans meant Turing had to develop new machines, or 'Bombes', to help his team of codebreakers decipher enemy messages. By 1943, the machines could decipher two messages every minute.

Yet while the race to break the Enigma code has become famous, credited with shortening the second world war by up to two years, and spawning various Hollywood films, experts say cracking it would be a trivial matter today.

'Enigma wouldn’t stand up to modern computing and statistics,' said Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science and an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Oxford."

theguardian.com/science/2025/m

The Guardian · Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts sayBy Nicola Davis