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Claude Shannon fan club with Jimmy Soni and David Senra 📖

Liberty's Highlights

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Is There a Universal Genie in Genetics?

Vannevar Bush called Claude Shannon a universal genius, right? Maybe someone that you can point their intellect in almost any direction and they would figure it out. I think what he did with every field almost is like, it's super power is abstracting stuff. You take something that used to be a kind of art, very analog, very like trial and error,. Like you kind of learn the recipe over time and you have to always correct it.

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