It’s one of the most famous cryptographic devices in history, and took genius computer scientists and mathematicians to crack its code for the Allies during World War II. The Enigma machine has become ...

[Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...