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How Claude Shannon modeled language, Markov chains and the birth of information theory
In his landmark 1949 paper, Claude Shannon showed how simple statistical models called Markov chains could reproduce the structure of human language. By modeling how letters and words depend on one ...
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The 'Patil effect' in an age of thinking machines
When Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver proposed their famous communication model in 1948, they could hardly have imagined that ...
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