How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (2017)
This is the first thing I have read about information theory that really made sense to me. I think I now understand it about ten times as well as I did before.<p>>What does information really measure? It measures the uncertainty we overcome<p>My thought here is that matters because human beings have to make decisions all the time, and reducing the uncertainty regarding the situation makes it more likely you will make the correct decision.