If any book can make general audiences grok the silicon age & finally recognize how it rivals the atomic age for drama & import, Chip War is it."
Great @nytimes review of @crmiller1's @SloanPublic book "Chip War," about the history/impact of microchips
nytimes.com/2022/10/08/boo…
We're viewing "The Bit Player," a documentary about the father of information theory, Claude Shannon.
I'm smitten by the cryptographic elements and his playfulness. He revolutionized the world. His should be a household name, like that of Einstein or Newton.
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It's an exploration for writing a Wordle solver, with the challenge of not using the official list of Wordle answers (except as a test set), which is really just an excuse for an information theory lesson.
youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA
I spent five years exploring the origins of PayPal and the lives of its earliest employees—a group that's left a wide imprint on technology, culture, and entrepreneurship.
The end result—THE FOUNDERS—debuts on 2/22/22, and I hope you’ll read and enjoy it. amzn.to/3GT3Svw
We announced this week our development of the Eagle 127-qubit #quantum processor. IBM passed the 100-qubit threshold, marking a new milestone in our quest for 1,000 qubits. I’m proud to have been a part of this groundbreaking moment for #quantumcomputing.
youtu.be/kR0y5Ps-7Kw
The Bit Player screened at the Karlstorkino Cinema in Heidelberg as part of the Film Festival Mathematik Informatik 2021 karlstorkino.de/programm/the-b…
@QuantaMagazine@yiannis_entropy It’s generally acknowledged that John Tukey coined “bit,” not Claude Shannon.
I realize that’s not technically contradictory to the tweet.
Claude Shannon’s masterpiece, a 1948 paper titled “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” was the first to use the word “bit” — a portmanteau of “binary digit,” either a 1 or a 0 — in reference to information. quantamagazine.org/how-claude-sha…
IMAGINE MATH CLASS Youth Video Contest: Teams of U.S. students ages 13-18 are invited to share their vision of the future of math class -- with youth, freedom, and color at the center. Deadline: Oct 15, 2021 - learn more at nationalmathfestival.org/join/imagine-m…. #2021NMF@mathmoves@NCTM