Podcasts Technology Data Science at Home Have you met Shannon? Conversation with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman about one of the greatest minds in history (Ep. 81)

Have you met Shannon? Conversation with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman about one of the greatest minds in history (Ep. 81)

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 7:23 a.m.

Join the discussion on our Discord server\n\xa0\nIn this episode I have an amazing conversation with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, authors of \u201cA mind at play\u201d, a book entirely dedicated to the life and achievements of Claude Shannon.\xa0Claude Shannon does not need any introduction. But for those who need a refresh, Shannon is the inventor of the information age.\xa0\nHave you heard of binary code, entropy in information theory, data compression theory (the stuff behind mp3, mpg, zip, etc.), error correcting codes (the stuff that makes your RAM work well), n-grams, block ciphers, the beta distribution, the uncertainty coefficient?\nAll that stuff has been invented by Claude Shannon :)\xa0\n\n\xa0\nArticles:\xa0\nhttps://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f\nhttps://medium.com/the-mission/on-claude-shannons-103rd-birthday-here-are-103-memorable-claude-shannon-quotes-maxims-and-843de4c716cf?source=your_stories_page---------------------------\nhttp://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented\nhttp://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat\n\n\xa0\nClaude's papers:\nhttps://medium.com/the-mission/a-genius-explains-how-to-be-creative-claude-shannons-long-lost-1952-speech-fbbcb2ebe07f\nhttp://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf\n\xa0\nA mind at play (book links):\xa0\nhttp://amzn.to/2pasLMz\xa0-- Hardcover\nhttps://amzn.to/2oCfVL0 -- Audio