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by anttipoi 3079 days ago
Tip: Claude Shannon's new biography [https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio...] is an enjoyable read.
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I wasn't a huge fan. It was more about his life and less about his ideas.

If you want a little bit of both, I highly recommend Seife's Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes or Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.