User contributions for Reaper1945

6 November 2024

• 04:2004:20, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5 Philip Arthur Fisher No edit summary current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 04:0104:01, 6 November 2024 diff hist −1 m Computer Remove comma. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 02:3702:37, 6 November 2024 diff hist +215 Claude Shannon Further information and source listed. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 02:2802:28, 6 November 2024 diff hist +1,656 Claude Shannon Information added regarding Shannon in miscellaneous subsection as an avid investor, and who gave lectures on investing, achieving a return rate on his portfolios comparable or better than Warren Buffett. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 01:4301:43, 6 November 2024 diff hist +902 Computer Work of Claude Shannon was instrumental in computing. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 00:4800:48, 6 November 2024 diff hist −3 Claude Shannon Fix link. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 00:3700:37, 6 November 2024 diff hist 0 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Grammatical fix. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 00:1900:19, 6 November 2024 diff hist −2 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Fix spacing of sources. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 00:1600:16, 6 November 2024 diff hist +458 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen University PhD. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

5 November 2024

• 23:0023:00, 5 November 2024 diff hist +25 Pedro Domingos Known for current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 22:5922:59, 5 November 2024 diff hist +317 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits URL added current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 22:5122:51, 5 November 2024 diff hist +1,255 Digital electronics Added information regarding Claude Shannon's influence on digital electronics due to his master's thesis. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 22:1922:19, 5 November 2024 diff hist +741 Akira Nakashima Information and source. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 22:0322:03, 5 November 2024 diff hist +165 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 21:5721:57, 5 November 2024 diff hist +757 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Information added about how Shannon's work was largely different than that of Akira Nakashima's. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:3120:31, 5 November 2024 diff hist +276 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Better source. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 19:3119:31, 5 November 2024 diff hist +726 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Sources. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 19:0519:05, 5 November 2024 diff hist +223 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Tweet by computer scientist Pedro Domingos calling Shannon's thesis the most important master's thesis of all time. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 18:4418:44, 5 November 2024 diff hist −19 Claude Shannon More accessible source. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 18:3418:34, 5 November 2024 diff hist +76 Leo Szilard Information in lede. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 18:2718:27, 5 November 2024 diff hist +417 Claude Shannon Slightly expanded last paragraph of lede with statement from Solomon W. Golomb in a retrospective article on Shannon. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 17:5217:52, 5 November 2024 diff hist +323 A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Source added. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 17:4417:44, 5 November 2024 diff hist +593 Information Sources added. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 17:3217:32, 5 November 2024 diff hist +25 Information Widely held that Shannon single-handedly established information theory in the 1940s, with early contributions by Hartley and Nyquist, which can be said for any scientific theory. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 16:3516:35, 5 November 2024 diff hist +389 Claude Shannon Information added. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 03:1703:17, 5 November 2024 diff hist −1 m Albert Einstein Minor spacing. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 03:1703:17, 5 November 2024 diff hist +2 Albert Einstein Einstein's lede has two long paragraphs, breaking it up would be beneficial for readability and better flow from years to year, especially transitioning from 1917 to 1933, when he decided to stay in the USA. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 01:5501:55, 5 November 2024 diff hist +2 Earl Warren Break up enormously long paragraph in lede to make readability better and so it's not all clumped together. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 00:0900:09, 5 November 2024 diff hist +20 Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems No edit summary current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

4 November 2024

• 20:5820:58, 4 November 2024 diff hist +15 Albert Einstein Fixed sentence. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:5720:57, 4 November 2024 diff hist +547 Albert Einstein His 1917 paper on radiation is cited as one of his most important papers due to laying the foundations for lasers and masers, but also had seeds for atom-cooling, Bose–Einstein condensation, and cavity quantum electrodynamics, as noted by physicist Daniel Kleppner. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:3420:34, 4 November 2024 diff hist −33 George Boole No edit summary Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:3020:30, 4 November 2024 diff hist +596 Claude Shannon Information to section "Other work". Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:2420:24, 4 November 2024 diff hist −591 Claude Shannon More concise. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:2220:22, 4 November 2024 diff hist +11 Claude Shannon No edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:1620:16, 4 November 2024 diff hist −774 Claude Shannon Reduce citations and sentences. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 20:1420:14, 4 November 2024 diff hist +5,403 Claude Shannon Undid revision 1255369960 by GuardianH (talk) While the lede is expansive, it is due to the far reaching impacts of Shannon's work, and the immense influence he had on areas such as cryptography, artificial intelligence, and information theory, for which he is considered a founding father of each. His lede is comparable in length to Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi. Tag: Undo
• 19:2319:23, 4 November 2024 diff hist +607 Alexander Hamilton Statement by British historian Paul Johnson on Hamilton's genius. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 16:1016:10, 4 November 2024 diff hist +507 Information theory Gleick is listed as a historian, and he is stating about the importance of information theory, not making any scientific contributions. Furthermore, at the least, the statement falls under WP:RSOPINION, and according to Encyclopædia Britannica, Gleick is a "leading American science journalist, historian, and biographer". Journalists are listed as a reliable source as well. current Tags: Manual revert Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 14:3114:31, 4 November 2024 diff hist +507 Information theory James Gleick on Shannon's paper. Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 03:0503:05, 4 November 2024 diff hist +159 Claude Shannon 1956 paper. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 02:5802:58, 4 November 2024 diff hist +850 Claude Shannon Information added to artificial intelligence section. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 02:1502:15, 4 November 2024 diff hist −1 Virginia Plan Spacing. current Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 01:3601:36, 4 November 2024 diff hist +2,194 Dartmouth workshop Information and sources added to lede. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

3 November 2024

• 22:5822:58, 3 November 2024 diff hist +588 Claude Shannon Historian James Gleick on the importance and place in history of Shannon. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 22:2522:25, 3 November 2024 diff hist +303 Claude Shannon Description of Shannon's ability to comprehend and solve complicated problems, comparable to Einstein, as stated by electrical engineer Robert Gallager. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

2 November 2024

• 00:0000:00, 2 November 2024 diff hist +618 Georges St-Pierre Sources added. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

1 November 2024

• 22:3222:32, 1 November 2024 diff hist +997 Claude Shannon Claude Shannon helped CIA. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 19:2419:24, 1 November 2024 diff hist +771 Claude Shannon Listed as one of the 20 most important scientists in America in June of 1954 by Fortune. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 16:3616:36, 1 November 2024 diff hist +368 Claude Shannon Description of Shannon's brilliance by Tom Rutledge for Boston Review. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit