"The Bit Player" (2018)

Beautiful, brilliant thing. Absolutely worth watching.

Information Theory. Cryptography. AI. Brain. Beauty. Practical and Playful. Gambling. Roulette. Alice in Wonderland. First "portable computer". Games. Chess-playing machine. Revolution. 

 

 

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"Everything that Shannon has predicted back in 1948 came true".

"0 and 1 - nothing and everything"

"Laws of thought can be implemented in switches" 

"All information can be treated the same way".

"He had to prepare french to get his PhD".

"- So you said you did most of your work on information theory between 1943 and 1945. So why didn't you publish your paper until 1948? - Laziness, I guess."

"I read that a major american mathematician criticized your paper for not being mathematically rigorous enough".

"I never liked writing very much, I liked the ideas".

"He loved jazz, it was a passion, a real passion. He said the improvisation, the unpredictability of it is what he loved". 

""A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" - timeless".

"He asked questions that no one asked, and that was amazing thing, the questions were very meaningful, and he answered them, and not one thought those questions could be answered that way".

"Inventing something is like sending a message in a bottle into the future".