And of course DNA defines itself between codes is with on/off switches and a lot of unused data just hangs around making the strands longer so boolean algebra is really handy in explaining biological things too.
27:58 "Of course he was a nerd! I mean he is one of the greatest researchers of the 20th century, you think he was an athlete in high school or something?" This made me grin haha
Claude shannon theory is not in the least bit true. It is at best a very supercilious view of compression coding. I have come up with scores of methods where 2^n bits of information can be losslessly coded in O(n) bits(order of n bits). So c*n bits of data, where c is a very very small constant can contain at least 2^n bits of information coded losslessly. Not only is massive lossless data compression a reality, but large numbers of terabytes sizes can be represented and manipulated within a few bytes, all mathematical operations performed within those few bytes.
Great lecture, but its nice the ego is ALMOST left at the door as a presenter. Find some comments to not have aged well, noting he's from a prior generation ... but the substance is very suitable. Didn't go off the rails like Shockley, thank goodness.
The ``sexist" part was not the assertion that Socrates was a man. He used a statement that says "Philosophers are men" - I think that is why he is saying that the example is ``sexist".
Little does MIT know that African's had developed boolean and fractal mathematics well before Shannon and Boole: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7n36qV4Lk94.html
