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That’s because his results are about pure information (and in the limit for infinite string lengths), so sooner or later some hardware will hit onto those limit
by ziofill 2y ago
That’s because his results are about pure information (and in the limit for infinite string lengths), so sooner or later some hardware will hit onto those limits or tend to them.
- bandrami 2y agoAgreed, but: he's still understudied. I think in retrospect any 21st-century math course has to include Shannon, and they don't all, yet.
- sebzim4500 2y agoOn some level he's a victim of his own success. He invents information theory in the same paper that proves the most interesting results, so who else will work on it?
- aidenn0 2y agoEven the practical work was done surprisingly early. I have a book on error correcting codes from the 1950s and it's missing very little (Most notably trellis codes and LDPC; the former being invented in the '70s and the latter in 1963).
- sebzim4500 2y agoThere's been much more progress on compression though (Arithmetic Coding, ANS, etc.)
- moffkalast 2y agoShannon: "I'm about to make and end this field's whole career."