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Jane Austen s concept of information (Not Claude Shannon s) 12 Jul 2017; 1 Jun 2018; 7 Aug 2018; 29 Aug 2018; 4 Sep 2018 10 Mar 2015; 29 May 2015 (Added introduction);4 Jun 2015; 30 Apr 2013; 16 Dec 2013; 27 Dec 2013; 6 Aug 2014; This file is available in two forms CONTENTS Introduction: Shannon vs Austen Many scientists and engineers, including, surprisingly, some psychologists and neuroscientists, seem to think that what the word information and its equivalents in other languages refer to is what Claude Shannon s ground-breaking 1948 paper referred to as information : a measurable property of signals that can be stored, transmitted, compared, compressed, decompressed, corrupted, repaired, encrypted, decrypted, etc. (Shannon, 1948). Many of Shannon s admirers seem to have forgotten that there is a much older, ....
And one of the things you wrote, you said sectarianism that has destroyed nation states in the middle east is now infecting us. comparing it essentially democrats versus republicans to sunni versus shia. that s a terrifying prospect. it is a terrifying prospect if you lived, as i have, through the lebanese civil war. but that is what s happening. you know, you hear people literally saying i wouldn t want my kids to marry one of them. and them they re referring to is not someone of a different race or religion, bad enough, but now it s of a different party. in washington, you hear people say i hope none of them are going to be at the meeting or the dinner or the conference. and what s so terrifying about it is that, you know, it s the doing we do together, anderson, that matters most. we have so many big, hard challenges before us. infrastructure, taxes, education, health care. and these are big, hard problems and big, hard problems can only be done together. right now we are simply i ....
And them they re referring to is not someone of a different race or religion, bad enough, but now it s of a different party. in washington, you hear people say i hope none of them are going to be at the meeting or the dinner or the conference. and what s so terrifying about it is that, you know, it s the doing we do together, anderson, that matters most. we have so many big heart challenges before us. infrastructure, taxes, education, health care. and these are big, hard problems and big, hard problems can only be done together. right now we are simply incapable of doing anything together. what would a rational donald trump have done. he would have come into office and said to chuck schumer, the democratic leader, you send your top three health care experts, i ll send my top three. we ll tell them they can t come down until they forge a compromise. they ll come down, we ll announce it together. i ll get more credit because i ll outtweet you and the country will be better off. ....
Lot. this is a serious issue. you hate to think of this in political terms. but when you go back to just a few minutes ago, when you played the responses of the presidential candidates, you heard a lot of them say there s nothing we can do because criminals don t follow the law. but by an extension of that logic, we should have no laws, like for murder, theft, assault, that doesn t make sense. we are a society of laws and we can fix problems. we can fix hard problems. as an organization, we ve been act i active in a lot of states getting legislation passed, and we can do that in washington if the american people decide this is something they want. what do you say to the constitutional question, let s say you get what you want on some of this gun control, but the supreme court will say it s in violation of the second amendment? ....