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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, ....
ONCE you are reminded of the late William McIlvanney, it’s hard not to start missing him, his writing, his coolness. We had news this week of Ian Rankin being entrusted to work up some of Willie’s literary notes, found in his papers. These are sketches towards an early 1970s prequel for his ground-breaking crime novel, Laidlaw, which Rankin – an avowed McIlvanney devotee – has turned into a fully realised work. “I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night with a line that felt like a Willie line and I would scribble it down,” says Rankin. As I’ve been sampling McIlvanney’s corpus in the last few days (“Corpus! Just don’t make a corpse of me in the process,” I can imagine him snapping), this seems a particularly appropriate method. ....