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Is a Claude Shanon biopic or theme park in work? There has been a flood of articles about him in the last few weeks. This reminds me of the time a few years bac

by nafey 9y ago

Is a Claude Shanon biopic or theme park in work? There has been a flood of articles about him in the last few weeks. This reminds me of the time a few years back when general public discovered Nikola Tesla.

jimmyasoni 9y ago
There is actually: filmmaker Mark Levinson is at work on a biopic about Claude Shannon, due out next year! He did an award-winning documentary a few years back called "Particle Fever," which was about CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. High hopes for his upcoming one on Shannon!
pvarangot 9y ago
A book about Shannon's life and his contributions to modern interconnected society came out not too long ago, "A Mind at Play". Seems lots of journalist read it and rehashed into their opinion/bio pieces.
stagger87 9y ago
This article as well as all of the others I have seen on the front page are written by the two authors of a recent biography of Shannon. Smart marketing...
- aboiXDXD 9y ago
  i repect you as a hacker repotere i hope you go very far in life
- oxymoron 9y ago
  Yep, pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN. Worked on me though... After the first article I thought "I want to read that at some point." After the second one, I added it to my wishlist. After they got Vincent Cerf to review it in nature I gave up and ordered it. Finished reading it a few weeks ago. A bit short, but well worth its money.
  - grzm 9y ago
    > pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN It doesn't need to be targeted at HN: members of HN are members of the general population, and the publishers/marketers of the book are understandably going to be doing their jobs which includes getting articles written,w which members of HN come across in the course of their lives. It's not surprising they would then share these articles on HN. Say an actor is making appearances on a bunch of different talk shows promoting their upcoming movie. The fact that Alice and Bob find out they happened to see the same actor on different shows while at the water cooler doesn't mean the actor was targeting this particular water cooler or Alice and Bob in particular.
grkvlt 9y ago
> Claude Shannon [...] theme park An information theory rollercoaster, the haunted house of entropy, that sort of thing?

by nafey 9y ago

jimmyasoni 9y ago

There is actually: filmmaker Mark Levinson is at work on a biopic about Claude Shannon, due out next year! He did an award-winning documentary a few years back called "Particle Fever," which was about CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. High hopes for his upcoming one on Shannon!

pvarangot 9y ago

A book about Shannon's life and his contributions to modern interconnected society came out not too long ago, "A Mind at Play". Seems lots of journalist read it and rehashed into their opinion/bio pieces.

stagger87 9y ago

This article as well as all of the others I have seen on the front page are written by the two authors of a recent biography of Shannon. Smart marketing...

aboiXDXD 9y ago
i repect you as a hacker repotere i hope you go very far in life
oxymoron 9y ago
Yep, pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN. Worked on me though... After the first article I thought "I want to read that at some point." After the second one, I added it to my wishlist. After they got Vincent Cerf to review it in nature I gave up and ordered it. Finished reading it a few weeks ago. A bit short, but well worth its money.
- grzm 9y ago
  > pretty intense gerilla marketing on HN It doesn't need to be targeted at HN: members of HN are members of the general population, and the publishers/marketers of the book are understandably going to be doing their jobs which includes getting articles written,w which members of HN come across in the course of their lives. It's not surprising they would then share these articles on HN. Say an actor is making appearances on a bunch of different talk shows promoting their upcoming movie. The fact that Alice and Bob find out they happened to see the same actor on different shows while at the water cooler doesn't mean the actor was targeting this particular water cooler or Alice and Bob in particular.

grkvlt 9y ago

> Claude Shannon [...] theme park An information theory rollercoaster, the haunted house of entropy, that sort of thing?