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On 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
by sebzim4500 2y ago
On 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."