MIT linguist explains Claude Shannon's master thesis | Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman

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Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab.

[robertobomfin]

Telecom engineer here. For those who don't know, all digital communications systems nowadays such as wifi, 4G/5G, satellite, etc are directly based on Shannon's work.

[fizixrules]

This isn’t talking about Shannon’s Master’s thesis. Shannon’s 1940 Master’s thesis was on using switches to do Boolean Logic, a huge idea. This is talking about Shannon’s 1948 work published by Bell Labs, “ A Mathematical Theory of Communication” which amazingly is an even bigger idea.

[thomascorr]

I recall reading this a couple times back in 1997 and 1999. I saw it referenced in a book and followed up out of curiosity. Im glad I am not the only one who’s benefitted of this work; nobody I’ve spoken to about it in the past ever heard of it nor likely followed up on it.

The work is far more important than Chomsky, as far as I’m concerned. Chomsky just monopolized a large sphere of intellectuality. Alfred Korcybski is also worth looking into, in my opinion.

[ytc]

The man know his field. But often interrupts Lex when he's going to give his input, which annoyed Lex and doesn't work well with the conversation-style podcast. He's just too eager to talk about these things. Hope he's reading this because that can be adjusted. It's an interesting topic to learn about

[reethkitchards]

What about music and lyrics as a means of complex communication of concepts?

[danskiver]

Language adherence to linear structures exclusively limits its explanatory effectiveness in a multidimensional world with multidimensional issues.

[PirateSpaceCat]

Hes talking about self correcting code

[emwave]

It's weird to think that are mouths and ears are just modems modulating and demodulating signals passing through and using air as the medium.

[pmeyer]

I don’t understand the value of this discussion. Can someone help me with this?

[trimetrodon]

Optimized communication? Read professional geology abstracts. These approach the Beckenstein bounds.

[chris-cyed]

To many people in this world not wanting to do the jobs to get done that need be done that aren't

[bgwhalley]

He reminds me of Bill Gates. So smart he becomes dumb.