Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone · 18 Sep 2006 · 389pp · 109,207 words
measure.) Shannon accepted von Neumann’s suggestion. He used both the word “entropy” and its usual algebraic symbol, H. Shannon later christened his Massachusetts home “Entropy House”—a name whose appropriateness was apparent to all who set eyes on its interior. “I didn’t like the term ‘information theory,’” Robert Fano said
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juice.” “an important influence on my life”: “A Conversation with Claude Shannon,” transcript of interview with Robert Price, Dec. 20, 1983, Shannon’s papers, LOC. “Entropy House”: Rogers n.d. “I didn’t like the term”: Aftab, Cheung, Kim, et al. 2001. “To make the chance of error”: Waldrop 2001. Use more
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman · 17 Jul 2017 · 415pp · 114,840 words
the “toy room,” but which his daughter Peggy and her two older brothers simply called “Dad’s room.” The Shannons gave their home a name: Entropy House. Claude’s status as a mathematical luminary would make it a pilgrimage site for students and colleagues, especially as his on-campus responsibilities dwindled toward
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much time at MIT. So my sense growing up was that he was around a lot. It was different from a lot of working people.” Entropy House became his office; students dropped by, seeking feedback on projects but just as often looking to see what the Sage of Winchester had cooked up
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approached, but did not break, the Shannon Limit, had the news found any purchase on him. From 1983 to 1993, Shannon continued to live at Entropy House and carry on as well as he could. Perhaps it says something about the depth of his character that, even in the last stages of
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, Claude was to stay at home—“home was a real refuge for her,” Peggy said—and she began to prepare one of the rooms of Entropy House, outfitting it with a hospital bed and other essentials. But Betty herself was getting older, and her daughter had a sense that the challenge of
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, 35, 39–43 war work disliked by, 93–94, 95 wealth of, 238, 239–40 wide-ranging interests of, 275–76 Winchester house of, see Entropy House work as hobby for, 266 Shannon, Claude Elwood, Sr., 5–6, 8 death of, 18 Shannon, David, Jr., 11 Shannon, Mabel Wolf, 5–7, 8
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
and less of its significance.11 The materialist superstition is a strange growth in an age of information. Writing from his home, which he named “Entropy House,” Shannon showed that information itself is measured by unexpected bits—by its surprisal. This is a form of disorder echoing the disorder of thermodynamic entropy
The Quants
by Scott Patterson · 2 Feb 2010 · 374pp · 114,600 words
paying regular visits to Shannon’s home later that November as the two scientists set to work on the roulette problem. Shannon called his home “Entropy House,” a nod to a core concept in information theory, borrowed from the second law of thermodynamics. The law of entropy essentially means everything in the