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Certainly it seems like Shannon is turning out to be the lindy Nicola Tesla equivalently impactful person but in the realm of bits.
by rogerkirkness 4y ago
Certainly it seems like Shannon is turning out to be the lindy Nicola Tesla equivalently impactful person but in the realm of bits.
- 082349872349872 4y ago> ...in the realm of bits. Especially as an OG (first author to use the word?): https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... > If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey. [Edit: also, consider the section "3. THE SERIES OF APPROXIMATIONS TO ENGLISH" to be an early exploration of MLMs: Microscopic Language Models]
- kkylin 4y agoJohn Tukey also invented FFT and apparently was the first to use "software" in a publication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey
- yesenadam 4y agoGauss invented FFT, in 1805. And "Between 1805 and 1965, some versions of FFT were published by other authors" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform#History p.s. I started reading Tukey's textbook Exploratory Data Analysis just yesterday. It's wonderful so far, a pleasure to read. "It is important to understand what you CAN DO before you learn to measure how WELL you seem to have DONE it." "The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see."
- disconcision 4y agoyes but colloquially we take 'inventor' to mean whoever invented it next after guass
- yesenadam 4y ago:-) It seems Cooley and Tukey were the first to realize/state that it's O(N log N), which is something.