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Claude Shannon fan club with Jimmy Soni and David Senra 📖

Liberty's Highlights

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What's the Difference Between Alan Turing and Shannon?

There's a group of people who criticize Shannon for the later part of his career not being as successful as the first part right. He sort of publishes information theory and then gets off the stage. And I've always been on the side of I actually disagree because if you look at the number of inventions he made kind of at the tail end of his life they were phenomenally productive. But that's one place where I'm like oh there's a little bit of criticism even from fellow scientists they were like well you could have done so much more Shannon.

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