Shannon, father of information theory + titan of 20th c. science combined rigor, playfulness + insatiable curiosity (to?) invent a powerful but simple formalism linking thermodynamic entropy to information content. Jaynes' 1957 paper on that connection https://t.co/I23qjDlXOP pic.twitter.com/FuLbRZlZBQ
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