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Funny timing. Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast had an episode about Shannon. He sounds like a fun guy to have been around. https://timharford.com/2021/05

• phonebucket 5y ago
  The timing is a little less funny if you know that I listened to the podcast shortly before finding the IEEE article. The podcast was great! I would think that many on HN would find it interesting.
  • doublejay1999 5y ago
    There's a passable movie called "the bit player" currently on amazon and I guess elsewhere. I'd never heard of him, and that's embarrassing, but he probably prefers it that way :-).
  • vaughandroid 5y ago
    Cautionary Tales is my favourite podcast. Most episodes concern either interesting (mis)use of statistics or cognitive biases, both of which are topics I find inherently interesting, but Tim Harford and team do a brilliant job of the storytelling too. Tim Harford's other podcasts are great too - More or Less, and 50 Things Which Made the Modern Economy. Does anyone have any recommendations along similar lines?
    • anitil 5y ago
      He also hosted 'How to Vaccinate the World', and interviewed some heavy-hitters like Bill Gates. The series is over now but was very interesting.
• anitil 5y ago
  It was so endearing to head about Shannon spending his time as an illustrious academic learning to juggle, then unicycle, then both at the same time.