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Episode 15: Jimmy and Rob on Claude Shannon

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Shannon's Biggest Impression on Information Theory

Shannon Taper was a major pioneer in and was an influential figure in information theory. He started by asking, well, what can we say about messages in general if you completely abstract away their content? And that's really where he made his biggest mark - stripping away all the extraneous stuff.

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