Claude Shannon documentary

It's on youtube

Then go to ripzor.com and download that puppy. I don't know when we lost the notion of a file, but I'm fighting that notion.

I used downloadhelper in firefox, hadn't heard of ripzor before.

martin

OT do you know of any sites that I can d/l some videos that have better quality than youtube, now that Divxstudio6 (?) is defunct

martin

In there with chaos theory and other mathematical/scientific fads. He wrote a book called Signals, Symbols and Noise that attempted to explain just about everything with Information Theory, mostly with little impact. I remember struggling to stay awake through most of it.

He's a bit like Tesla, one core discovery, his equation linking noise, data rate and resolution (Teslas was the rotating magnetic field), but then he had to keep going and nothing he did came up to the same mark.

Yeah, a real lightweight. Einstein was another one. Boring!

Then again, you might want to actually read Shannon's 1948 paper.

-- Joe

Wow, nice find. OTOH Shannon could juggle, Einstein could not

martin

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Maybe so, but Einstein did enjoy being shot out of a cannon from time to time. He did some of his best work at zero G's.

Your point?

In 1951, I often met Claude Shannon riding his unicycle through the halls of Bell Labs. I don't think Einstein could do that!