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Most people think Claude Shannon invented information theory. That’s not quite correct. Twenty yea

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Most people think Claude Shannon invented information theory. That’s not quite correct. Twenty years before Shannon’s famous 1948 paper, Ralph V. L. Hartley published a remarkable paper in the Bell System Technical Journal (1928) titled “Transmission of Information.” https://t.co/iGHvqspqQD