
Episode 15: Jimmy and Rob on Claude Shannon
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Shannon's Life Lessons in Information Theory
He didn't like people popularizing it and applying it outside of its very specific domain, which was specifically in coding and decoding messages. He would frequently turn down opportunities to give talks, opportunities to do media. There was this kind of contrarian sensibility when it came to becoming famous. But he won the Kyoto Prize. It seemed like a pretty big deal.
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