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Claude Shannon fan club with Jimmy Soni and David Senra ๐Ÿ“–

Liberty's Highlights

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Book Review: Club Shannon Fanfare

David Bianculli: Shannon's genius lay in the quality of the puzzles he set for himself. He wasn't really out to be a multimillionaire investor, but yet he became one. His information theory paper has something like a hundred thousand citations on Google Scholar. And so you have a person who is hugely complex and paradoxical.

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