The whole paper is available here, if anyone wants to read it https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf

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Right: Claude Elwood Shannon with "Theseus" (1952) and the mouse navigating itself through the labyrinth (Credit: MIT Museum, Boston / Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn). Left: Shannon, Claude Elwood: MazeSolving Machine, plan. More informations in: Dreher, Thomas: Cybernetics and the Pioneers of Computer Art. Chapter Cybernetic Models. Internet: https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/4_Medienkunst_Kybernetike.html #cyberneticmodels #claudeshannon #claudeelwoodshannon #cybernetics #cyberneticmodel #computerart #macyconferences

I read this article some time ago and I think it's great. It's absolutely worth reading! It's titled "How Claude Shannon invented the future" and I think it's absolutely true! Claude Shannon is probably one of the most underrated geniuses ever. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

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Claude Shannon, such a genius.

(Source: from the book Unix a history and a memoir, by Brian Kernighan)

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Interesting read about #mathematics, #settheory, and #informationtheory from Quanta Magazine, about getting closer to resolving the union-closed conjecture. It references the 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication" from #claudeshannon.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/

@Luisa_Donato I'm fairly certain that no one I know IRL is aware of the name "Claude Shannon" or the scope of the work he accomplished, and it makes me very happy to see him celebrated here. #claudeshannon was from an era of polymaths, when you weren't just a software or hardware engineer, you were usually a mathematician or physicist who got into engineering as a practical application of your field.

Thanks for sharing! Makes me feel like Mastodon is full of My People.

Claude Shannon, such a genius.

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"The Bandwagon," an essay by Claude Shannon, the guy who kick-started the Information Age, in which he cautions the scientific community not to get carried away and try to apply #InformationTheory to everything. "Seldom do more than a few of nature's secrets give way at one time."

Fascinating that this essay is from 1956, only 8 years after his ground-breaking "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". A glimpse into the early years of a revolution

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1056774

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« thoughtless mathematicians […] decided that it would be amusing to name a very important new #mathematical function communication "#entropy" because "no one knows what [#thermodynamic] #entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage (#JohnVonNeumann speaking to #ClaudeShannon) […] a cruel #joke imposed on generations of scientists and non-scientists because many authors have completely mixed up #information "#entropy" and #thermodynamic #entropy »
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Dans l'expo #ClaudeShannon au musée des Arts et Metiers de Paris, on a pu voir @_omr pixels et @ausnum pixels ! https://social.tchncs.de/media/EP9d77jXCcUMUp0himg