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b'My guest on this episode is Jimmy Soni\\u2014who, with his co-author Rob Goodman, recently wrote the biography of Claude Shannon, titled;\\xa0A Mind at Play.\\nShannon was born in 1916 and became\\xa0one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century, before passing away in 2001.\\xa0He was a mathematician, a scientist, an inventor and also, a stock market investor\\u2026\\nAlthough he\\u2019s widely unknown by the general public, Shannon is responsible for Information Theory\\u2014a revolutionary method of measuring information which stands behind much of the technology we use all day everyday.\\nShannon\\u2019s other achievements, discoveries and inventions range from artificial intelligence to cryptography and fire breathing trumpets to chess playing machines and the world\\u2019s first wearable computer, and that\\u2019s not all!\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'