Information Theory


The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Elements of Information Theory
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Information: The New Language of Science
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Information Theory: From Coding to Learning
Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Rickards
The war on bias assumes gatekeepers have no biases of their own and ignores the fact that bias is a valuable survival technique that will never go away.
James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Richard Hamming
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. ...more
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