Shannon: Paper into Pixels
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
— Claude Shannon (1948)
Read: Claude Shannon’s ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication’ (1948)
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[…] information not merely at the level of phonemes and sentences, but at the level of the pixel (see #5 Shannon: Paper into Pixels), and hence all the myriad dots they join […]