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Episode 15: Jimmy and Rob on Claude Shannon

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How Did Shannon Win a Nobel Prize?

There's no real possibility of him winning a Nobel just because the fields that he could conceivably have wanted in, engineering or computer science or math just aren't fields to happen at a Nobel Prize. That's just sort of a random development of which fields got funded with Nobel Prizes. And then Shannon as we've touched on just tinkered in all sorts of ways and I don't know if you could go into this more, the first wearable computer. Yeah. So this is actually really, it's a really interesting part of this sort of post information theory tinkering and hobbies.

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