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Presenting: Andrei Kolmogorov
There are mathematicians who solve problems. And there are mathematicians who change the way everyone else asks questions. Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was the second kind.
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Presenting: Alan Turing
Imagine for a moment that thinking does not require a soul. Imagine that logic, memory, and deduction are not a biological miracle, but a purely mechanical process that gears, paper tape, or electricity could replicate. The absolute prophet of that heresy was Alan Mathison Turing.
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Presenting: Kurt Gödel
Some mathematicians spend their careers building imposing structures of logic and numbers on foundations they assume are solid. Others climb down to examine those foundations and prove mathematically that the building has unbridgeable cracks and can never be finished. Kurt Gödel definitely belonged to the second kind.
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Information Theory / Science and Technology
Thesaurus of terms from the Sci-Tech category — Shannon entropy, Kolmogorov complexity, noise vs. signal, graceful degradation, data vs. knowledge, and informational resilience.
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Sci-Tech: The Difference Between Data and Knowledge
A forecast that tells you something you already knew carries zero information regardless of how many bytes it occupies.