Shannon - dunsmoor.eth

Shannon's foundational 1948 paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, isn't just some academic footnote, it's a damn revolution in human understanding that laid the groundwork for our entire digital age. His work showed that entropy in information systems isn't just abstract math but that it's a statistical inevitability that emerges as data piles up. Think about it: in a system with 99 red apples and 1 green one in a barrel, the entropy, that measure of uncertainty when you're blindly g...