Content tagged with “information-theory”

“ I was left wondering if I was the right audience. A lot of it felt pretty obvious, but I’ve been doing diagrams like this for a while. I endorse the theme of the book - we need to diagram mental models before we start talking about UI and writing code. ”

“I really wanted to like this book, because I really wanted to understand this book. But I didn’t. I tried, and I have a lot of background with the concepts – information theory and such. But, damn, this book is out there. It’s very ambitious. It starts off talking about mainstream information…”

“So, this is actually a reread , even though I didn’t have any notes from back when I read it for the first time (probably in 2010 or so?). I do remember this was recommended to me by a guy I sat next to on a plane. He was reading the Bible, and we got into a discussion about that, then realized we…”

“This is another book to which I gave every chance, but I eventually abandoned because it just never proved its point. The author is apparently quite famous in politically conservative circles. His prior book – Wealth and Poverty – was well-known, and I gather that he had something to do with…”

“Lovely biography of Claude Shannon, who gave us information/communication theory. Covers his life from birth to death, in short chapters, each devoted to some aspect or time period. The longest chapter is a discussion of ‘A Mathematical Basis for Communication,’ and is one of the best summaries…”

“This is an enormously conceptual book, and is more about economics than information. The author makes the claim that the functionality and ordering of atoms (?) in physical products is information, and this grows with economies. A computer is only worth more than the plastic and chemicals its made…”