#claudeshannon — Public Fediverse posts

🤔💡 Wow, what a groundbreaking revelation that most people don't know Claude Shannon! Next up: the shocking insight that not everyone can recite the periodic table backwards. 🙄🌐 Meanwhile, the quest for "intellectual revolutions" continues, hopefully avoiding the "obscure fields" of common sense. 📚🔍
https://www.thinkingcomplete.com/2017/09/what-have-been-greatest-intellectual.html #ClaudeShannon #IntellectualRevolutions #CommonSense #KnowledgeDiscovery #ScienceHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Un genio poco conosciuto

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

#ClaudeShannon #InformationTheory #Computer #StoriadellaScienza #matematica #fisica

Episódio 169 – Criptografia – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/12/episodio-169-parte-b/

#Podcast #ACM #AES #AKS #algoritmo #APL #AssinaturaDigital #ATM #Bitcoin #blockchain #Blowfish #BruceSchneier #BugDoMilnio #CertificadoDigital #ChavePrivada #ChavePblica #ClaudeShannon #ComputaoHomomrfica #ComputaoQuntica #Criptografia #CriptografiaReticulada #CurvasElpticas #DEMON #DES #Dilbert #dinheiro #DVDCSS #ECC #fatorao #GCHQ #hash #HorstFeistel #IBM #ICPBrasil #IFF #IPAA #LloydsBank #LU

Episódio 169 – Criptografia – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/12/episodio-169-parte-b/

#Podcast #ACM #AES #AKS #algoritmo #APL #AssinaturaDigital #ATM #Bitcoin #blockchain #Blowfish #BruceSchneier #BugDoMilnio #CertificadoDigital #ChavePrivada #ChavePblica #ClaudeShannon #ComputaoHomomrfica #ComputaoQuntica #Criptografia #CriptografiaReticulada #CurvasElpticas #DEMON #DES #Dilbert #dinheiro #DVDCSS #ECC #fatorao #GCHQ #hash #HorstFeistel #IBM #ICPBrasil #IFF #IPAA #LloydsBank #LU

Episódio 169 – Criptografia – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/12/episodio-169-parte-b/

#Podcast #ACM #AES #AKS #algoritmo #APL #AssinaturaDigital #ATM #Bitcoin #blockchain #Blowfish #BruceSchneier #BugDoMilnio #CertificadoDigital #ChavePrivada #ChavePblica #ClaudeShannon #ComputaoHomomrfica #ComputaoQuntica #Criptografia #CriptografiaReticulada #CurvasElpticas #DEMON #DES #Dilbert #dinheiro #DVDCSS #ECC #fatorao #GCHQ #hash #HorstFeistel #IBM #ICPBrasil #IFF #IPAA #LloydsBank #LU

Episódio 169 – Criptografia – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/12/episodio-169-parte-b/

#Podcast #ACM #AES #AKS #algoritmo #APL #AssinaturaDigital #ATM #Bitcoin #blockchain #Blowfish #BruceSchneier #BugDoMilnio #CertificadoDigital #ChavePrivada #ChavePblica #ClaudeShannon #ComputaoHomomrfica #ComputaoQuntica #Criptografia #CriptografiaReticulada #CurvasElpticas #DEMON #DES #Dilbert #dinheiro #DVDCSS #ECC #fatorao #GCHQ #hash #HorstFeistel #IBM #ICPBrasil #IFF #IPAA #LloydsBank #LU

#AlanLove - #Philosophy of #Genes & #Biology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gvsaTn0DI

#PhilosophyOfBiology #Genetics #Information #Covariation #Semantics #SemanticContent #Aboutness #Intentionality #Shannon #ClaudeShannon #Error #Noise #Measurement #Stocasticity #Evolution #AnimalCommunication #Communication #Animals #Signals #Signal #Signalling #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

A scientist, in a nutshell:

Shannon "knew to focus on what is possible, rather than what is immediately practical."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

#ClaudeShannon

Remembering Claude Shannon, born on this day, with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf

#ClaudeShannon

I was looking for some stuff about chess and I came across this. Claude Shannon is everywhere. Such a genius.

#ClaudeShannon

« Alors qu'on investit de façon stupéfiante dans la prochaine génération de l'intelligence artificielle générative, ne devrions-nous pas nous préoccuper tout autant de former la prochaine génération d'humains – ceux qui solliciteront, évalueront, éditeront et feront circuler les résultats des machines ? Vous pouvez construire une meilleure machine littéraire, mais elle ne vaudra rien si vous ne formez pas de meilleurs lecteurs. » #IA #ItaloCalvino #ClaudeShannon
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/markets-and-the-good/articles/language-machinery

The whole paper is available here, if anyone wants to read it https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf

#ClaudeShannon

Von Neumann told me: "You should call it ENTROPY for 2 reasons. In the 1st place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the 2nd place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."
#ClaudeShannon 🥳

also
Carl Friedrich Gauss 🎁 🎀
Simon Kuznets 🎈 🎏
George Stibitz 🎊🎉

I read this article some time ago and I think it's great. It's absolutely worth reading! It's titled "How Claude Shannon invented the future" and I think it's absolutely true! Claude Shannon is probably one of the most underrated geniuses ever. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

#claudeshannon @QuantaMagazine

Claude Shannon, such a genius.

(Source: from the book Unix a history and a memoir, by Brian Kernighan)

#claudeshannon #unixahistoryandamemoir
#briankernighan

Interesting read about #mathematics, #settheory, and #informationtheory from Quanta Magazine, about getting closer to resolving the union-closed conjecture. It references the 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication" from #claudeshannon.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/

@Luisa_Donato I'm fairly certain that no one I know IRL is aware of the name "Claude Shannon" or the scope of the work he accomplished, and it makes me very happy to see him celebrated here. #claudeshannon was from an era of polymaths, when you weren't just a software or hardware engineer, you were usually a mathematician or physicist who got into engineering as a practical application of your field.

Thanks for sharing! Makes me feel like Mastodon is full of My People.

Claude Shannon, such a genius.

#claudeshannon

Claude Shannon's Ultimate MachineTrolley Problem

A trolly is hurtling down a track, toward a switch. You control the direction of the points. If you leave the settings as they are, five people will die. If you intercede, one person will die by your hand. After you make your decision, an automaton will set the switch to the opposite of your choice.

#TrolleyProblem #ClaudeShannon #UltimateMachine

3Blue1Brown on Wordle, probability, information theory, and expected value.

Or: Shannon, von Neumann, and Pascal walk into a word game...

Whether or not you've been sucked into this word game fad, this is a really good explanation of the relationships between probability and expected information value (I = -log2(p)), as well as how to optimally find one element within a known search space.

It explains the logic behind selecting starting words for Wordle, as well as how and why optimisers choose their own guesses, and what an optimal solver's ultimate limits would be.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

HN discuussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232413

#Wordle #3Blue1Brown #Video #InformationTheory #Probability #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #BlaisePascal #ExpectedValue

A Faithful Replica of an Early Computer Trainer - Turn the clock back six decades or so and imagine you’re in the nascent computer business. You kno... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/a-faithful-replica-of-an-early-computer-trainer/ #informationtheory #retrocomputing #claudeshannon #education #minivac #trainer #logic #relay