The Importance of Persistence

Shannon never again published anything like his theory of information. Once he promised the editor of scientific american an article on the physics of juggling. Shannon enclosed a 70 line poem about rubics cubes to be sung to the tune of tarara bumdia. He added, i am still working on the juggling paper. Not only was he not producing derbolts, he wasn't even producing a study of juggling. Perhaps we should not be surprised that claude shannon was happy to put aside serious research when the young mathematician ed thorpe approached him for help in hacking the roulette table in vagus. Cautionary tales will be back in a moment. Nothing in this world can