<h1 id="mind-at-play">Mind at Play<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#mind-at-play"></a></h1>
<h2 id="status">Status<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#status"></a></h2>
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<li>2023-01-15 08:19: punt</li>
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<h2 id="summary">Summary<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#summary"></a></h2>
<h2 id="review">Review<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#review"></a></h2>
<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#takeaways"></a></h2>
<h2 id="key-points">Key Points<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#key-points"></a></h2>
<h2 id="concepts">Concepts<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#concepts"></a></h2>
<h2 id="people">People<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#people"></a></h2>
<h2 id="quotes">Quotes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#quotes"></a></h2>
<h2 id="questions">Questions<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#questions"></a></h2>
<h2 id="notes">Notes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#notes"></a></h2>
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<p>differential equation calculator useless until it could do ballistics and naval shalesa</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>worked at fire control for ww2</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>lots of bright figures in the field wanted shannon to succeed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>van bush looking out for shannon </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>language is highly redundant</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>one in 5 languages matter</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>english text, 80% can be removed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>most of the time we say nothing new</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>shanon breakthrough: you can overcome noise in a channel by adding redundancy, and make it possible to transmit anything through any channel</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>everything was reducible to bits and could be encoded in anything</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>compress, encode, transmit</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>dube, shanon critique, thought math was insufficient</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>left a lot of spaces for others to fill in</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>engineers thought it was to mathematical</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>nowan viener, chap19</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>also had some part in information theory</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>chap20, shanon turned 30</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>married</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>wife was sounding board</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>shanon “this should be truth”, would skip steps, wife helped</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>engineering is useful dissatisfaction </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>simplify problem</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>curiosity </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>died 2001 alzheimers</p>
</li>
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<h2 id="related">Related<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#related"></a></h2>

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Mind at Play

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## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

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