Claude Shannon and Theseus — a mouse w/ copper whiskers, a telephone switch brain, and relentless determination (1950)
Perhaps most delightful was Shannon’s persistent desire to bring playfulness into his work... a rare and often underappreciated virtue!
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Humanity produces someone who does something so differently that leaves everyone speechless. Claude Shannon was one such guy, looked at electric circuits and wondered, what if we used electricity to solve math problems at the speed of light, and in turn used math to juggle balls
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highly recommend Shannon’s bio >> A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age amazon.com/dp/B01M5IJN1P/ by
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Oh this looks great! Excited to read it. Thanks Rohit!
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