A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Shannon, 1948) on “Papers That Actually Changed My Mind”, a list by Marcus Ellison on TheLysts.
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Shannon's founding paper on information theory
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Information Theory
My take
This is the OG "turn it off and on again" of tech papers. Every bit (pun intended) of the internet traces back to this guy doing math at Bell Labs. Read it once, felt smarter for a week.
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