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TIL Claude Shannon of Bell Labs wrote a paper: The Mathematical Theory of Communication that is fundamental to all of us
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
May 3 '20, 20:34
He's the guy who figured out that information could be digitized. Not like a scanner or A/D butt way more fundamental than that. He invented the bit.
So all of 'this' (waves vaguely at ST) tracks back to that guy.
https://www.bell-labs.com/claude-shannon/
(www.bell-labs.com)
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*punches him in the nuts* -- nm
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Mop
May 3, 20:38
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