#Claude Shannon

[linguisticillustrations]

Schematic diagram of a general general communication system - what has later become known as the "Shannon-Weaver-model". Historically important but also critisized.

Shannon, C. E. (July 1948). "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". Bell System Technical Journal. 27 (3): 381. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x.

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

Theseus - Life-sized magnetic mouse

Year: 1950 Creator: Claude Shannon Video: AT&T Website - (Original Bell Labs) "one of the world’s first examples of machine learning: a robotic maze-solving mouse known as Theseus. The Theseus of ancient Greek mythology navigated a minotaur’s labyrinth and escaped by following a thread he’d used to mark his path. But Shannon’s electromechanical toy was able to “remember” its path with the help of telephone relay switches.

As the film begins, Shannon’s wheeled mouse methodically explores its surroundings—a 25-square maze. Shannon tells viewers that the maze’s metal walls can be freely rearranged, so Theseus must use a small computing machine to learn the layout anew each time. But the mouse, a tiny wooden device containing a bar magnet and adorned with wire whiskers, is “far too small” to contain a computing machine, he says. Instead, the machinery is hidden beneath the floor of the maze, a series of telephone relay circuits he has repurposed to do something that they had never done before: learn." - MIT Technology Review

[mp3monsterme]

Who is Claude Shannon?

Anyone in IT will have heard of Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee. The majority of developers will know about Ada Lovelace. But what about Claude Shannon? Well, I have to admit that I didn’t until I had time to watch the documentary film The Bit Player. I am shocked I’d never come across Shannon’s name before, given the importance of his work. So what did he do? Well, Claude was responsible for…

[informationatlas]

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in chess is 318,979,564,000.

This vast complexity makes chess an incredibly rich and challenging game, contributing to its enduring appeal and the endless possibilities it offers.

[a-very-smooth-boltzmann-brain]

Yes. The coveted job title: ancestor of many distinguished people.

[aperint]

ChatGPT y BARD; ¿Acierto o Error?

ChatGPT y BARD; ¿Acierto o Error? #aperturaintelectual #vmrfaintelectual @victormanrf @Victor M. Reyes Ferriz @vicmanrf @victormrferriz Víctor Manuel Reyes Ferriz

14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 ChatGPT y BARD; ¿Acierto o Error? POR: VÍCTOR MANUEL REYES FERRIZ Desde que el hombre surgió en este planeta, ha tenido que desarrollar sus mejores y mayores habilidades y cualidades para inventar cuanta cantidad de artefactos, vestimentas, herramientas, armas e incluso pretextos, para conseguir que su vida sea más fácil inmerso siempre en la idea de que es para avanzar,…

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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001)

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minivac 601, claude shannon 1961

[kirkjerk]

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. --Claude Shannon I just hope they like us as much as we like doggos.

[opisthotonos]

Why did the computer keep freezing during its stand-up comedy routine? Because it had too many 'bad bits' in its performance!

[merge-conflict]

every day I wake up and wish I had access to cyberpunk stuff written by someone who really truly absurdly loves computers

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 1105: Adaptive Kink and Dynamics

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s going on with newer AI platforms for the Bay Area? Rick Rosner: AI is like the Wild West in some ways, but in other ways, it’s not. Companies like Alphabet and Microsoft are pouring billions of dollars into developing powerful AI like ChatGPT, so that’s not the Wild West—that’s heavy industry. But these smaller, fly-by-night developers are also working on different…

[informationatlas]

Dr. James Grime talking about the Shannon Number and other chess stuff.

The Shannon number, named after information theorist Claude Shannon, is an estimation of the game-tree complexity of chess. It represents a lower bound on the game-tree complexity, which is the number of possible positions in the game tree of chess.

[collapsedsquid]

You see when the background is that every person is interested in women, bisexuality only needs to be clarified to message that a person is interested in men, thus we have built an information-theoretic justification for this.

bizarre how much "bisexual women are straight and bisexual men are gay" still seems like a common implicit belief

[nimblermortal]

Nimbler: This character in my head writes poetry in Ruby and Pearl. What an effin' nerd. Nimbler: Anyway I wrote a poem about Shannon entropy because I'm in love.

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Thezeus (1981) by Alan Dibley, UK. Named after Claude Shannon's original maze solving mouse, 'Theseus', the ZX80 based 'Thezeus', went on to win a follow up maze-solving competition as reported in "Your Computer" magazine, in June 1982. In the British heat of the Euromouse Maze Contest, Alan Dibley's original Thezeus (pictured above) came sixth, while the latest version, Thezeus T3, found its way to the centre of the maze in a winning time of one minute and 13 seconds.

Thezeus has an unusual turning mechanism that's just about visible in the video above. "The method I chose for turning Thezeus seems quaint now, but at the time appeared to be the only logical method to use. He puts a foot down on the floor, lifts himself up about 3mm and turns around on the central pivot which carries the foot." – DIY about the mouse, by Alan Dibley, Practical Computing, July 1984.

"What happens if you give one of these mice a memory? Well let's see how long it takes him to [get to] the middle. Can a mouse like Thezeus, for instance, which seems to know its way around the maze, be considered intelligent? No it's absolutely dim. This particular mouse has a program which will, I hope, solve one particular problem. Outside of that environment it's useless. He's only following a set of instructions that I told him to do. If I give him wrong instructions he looks very stupid indeed because he goes down the wrong path." – Alan Dibley, Sinclair ZX80 Robot 1981.