# Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which he published in 1948.
He is also well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when—as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical numerical relationship.
Art, Automation, and AI — Part 2
Tim picks up the artifact-versus-artifice thread from last week and asks the practical question: what does it have to do with automation and AI?
Shawn's first answer is a distinction. An LLM takes in the corpus of human artifacts, finds the most popular patterns, and stitches them into something th…
Why AI Can Generate a Song but Struggles with Music Theory
Ben Morss is a Developer Advocate at Mistral. He previously spent 9.5 years at Google as a Product Manager for advanced APIs in Chrome and a Developer Advocate for the web. He earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Music from Harvard University and a doctorate in Music Composition from …
Herding Code 230: 2018 Year End Wrapup
Episode 230
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Kevin, K Scott, Jon, and Rob Conery talked about what they've been learning, programming languages vs. async patterns, message queues, blockchain, Claude Shannon, Mandarin, learning to play the drums, making perfect lattes, an…
What Does Entropy Actually Measure? - The Statistical Physics of Ordinary Air | Sleepy Facts About the Universe
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A sealed box of ordinary air contains more distinct microscopic arrangements than there are atoms in the observable universe. This simple physical reality forms the starting point for a careful …
"If We're in a Simulation, We're Super Mario" | Daniel Whiteson
Daniel Whiteson has heard every version of the simulation argument, and he answers the strongest one with Super Mario. Mario lives inside a Nintendo. He could learn every rule of his own world and never learn a thing about the room the console sits in.
00:00 Simulation hypothesis and the Super Mar…
Art, Automation, and AI - Part 4
Tim opens by returning to a story from earlier in the series. When ChatGPT 3.5 first hit, he told his wife that if a machine learned to write a book before he did, he was done. That led to the question underneath the whole series: why are you actually doing this? He recaps the first three parts, th…
Clearing the Static
Claude Shannon developed a way to measure uncertainty and explain how noise can corrupt a message. In a world crowded with alerts, opinions, and distractions, what noise is making it harder for us to hear what is true and life-giving?
The Signal Can Still Get Through
Claude Shannon showed that communication doesn’t require a perfect, noise-free channel. When we understand the channel, respect its limits, and protect the message, reliable communication remains possible. Noise is real, but what matters can still get through.
Information Is Surprise
Why does an unexpected result carry more information than one we already anticipated? Claude Shannon found a mathematical way to measure surprise. The unexpected may not always be true or important, but sometimes it reveals that our understanding is incomplete.
Moonshots #311, the Alex + Emad Cut (Nov 13, 2026) | Nvidia After Jensen, AI Takeover, Cure It All
Alex Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque, the best of a live Moonshots episode with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail, reshaped for the ASI pilled.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO after 33 years. Alex's theory of the case: look for the Remote Access Security Act and the Pax Silica, a wall between…
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