Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" has been cited well over 100,000 times. It's 55 pages, from 1948, and established much of the field of information entropy including defining the bit! I'm contemplating writing a modern concise high level summary so:
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I think it's worth revisiting as many parts of it read more true today than when it was written and provide a soft introduction to many complex topics through simple terms when broken down cleanly. The paper even has a language model included in it ;)pic.twitter.com/vzKtxPIUhj
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Replying to @Smerity
I'd assign a concise summary to students!
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