Memes in the Watson category “/technology and computing/computer security/network security”

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Quantifying Information Content Does Not Bring Meaning From Content

It is perfectly true that redundancy aids recognition of a signal as a language or a code, and this recognition is crucial to SETI. However, Shannon’s method provides only a quantitative measure of the complexity of a language or signaling system—not a translation. And while it is axiomatic in cryptology that…

Oct 28, 2024 1

communication
information science

Descartes Rules

I thought the following four [rules] would be enough, provided that I made a firm and constant resolution not to fail even once in the observance of them. The first was never to accept anything as true if I had not evident knowledge of its being so; that is, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to…

Jan 22, 2014 1

empiricism
history
philosophy