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by scottlocklin
2004 days ago
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Because I paid for the book, paid with hours of my life reading it, and am hopping mad that it is total garbage which wasted my time and money with a puerile, long winded stack of drivel. I'll eventually take the time to write about it in detail; you can figure out some of the details on why the movie was trash by googling my name. |
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For those interested: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/bit-player-des...
Tl;DR: There are no substantive criticisms, but apparently the style wasn't to the reviewer's taste.
Here's an extract:
Finally there is the title. “Bit player?” Shannon is the most important applied mathematician and inventor of the late 20th and early 21st century. Nobody else comes close. What would they call a documentary on Maxwell? “Waves haggis-man?” What would their clever title for Newton be? “Calculus apple-noggin sperdo?” Napoleon’s documentary is “big hat frog midget.” How about calling your documentary of Freud “Pervert Schlomo” while you’re at it. What fucking pinhead planet are you from calling a documentary of Shannon “Bit player?” Die in a fire, you fucking philistines!
(Apparently the author missed that "Bit Player" is a play on the idea that Shannon played with bits, and is unfamiliar with the idea that association of a title with a common saying makes people more comfortable with the idea that'll enjoy watching it)