"Shannon’s ‘mathematical theory’ sets out two big ideas. The first is that information is probabilistic. We should begin by grasping that information is a measure of the uncertainty we overcome, Shannon said – which we might also call surprise. What determines this uncertainty is not just the size of the symbol vocabulary, as Nyquist and … Continue reading The Bit Bomb
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The Solution to the Voynich Manuscript | Nicholas Gibbs
The solution to the Voynich Manuscript is a really interesting example of the power of scholarship and subject specialization. Edit: A week after it was published, this "solution" was debunked. I missed the follow-up. Perhaps the lesson here is how difficult it can be to untangle these kinds of puzzles.
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