'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You know it's illegal to even own a lock-picking set. (At least in California.)
But from what I gather it's using two tools together in conjunction and knowing how tumblers work.
Quick Poll: Who knows who Claude Shannon is? (Obviously taking votes before you click on that link.)
(I didn't know anything about him but as it happens, he's a very important scientist who has affected your life in many ways.)
I used to work at the Shannon Laboratory at AT&T.
I used to work at the Shannon Laboratory at AT&T.
Cool! But I expected you and Tommy and ita to know.
He pings no specific things for me. Applied math. Cryptography. That's where he seems familiar. Theories. With numbers. And information. But those have not been something I've looked at for years.
He pings no specific things for me. Applied math. Cryptography. That's where he seems familiar.
But you knew his name and those elements of his inquiries.
Oh, yeah, and Jon B. should know him, and probably DXM, Gud and maybe Ginger. And Lori.
But that's off the top of my head.
Anyway, he also invented a flame throwing trumpet and a motorized pogo-stick.
eta: Dag. He's got six statues.
I didn't recognize the name.
I didn't recognize the name.
Me neither! That's what's boggling me. Because when you read his wikipedia page you realize, "I should know who this is."
Robert Gallager has called Shannon the greatest scientist of the 20th century. According to Neil Sloane, an AT&T Fellow who co-edited Shannon's large collection of papers in 1993, the perspective introduced by Shannon's communication theory (now called information theory) is the foundation of the digital revolution, and every device containing a microprocessor or microcontroller is a conceptual descendant of Shannon's 1948 publication:[21] "He's one of the great men of the century. Without him, none of the things we know today would exist. The whole digital revolution started with him."
eta: Dag. He's got six statues.
How many of them BREATHE FIRE?
(Although I can pop crappy locks with a bobby pin or credit card, I would LOVE to learn how to pick locks. Not for CRIME; just....to know.)
Ooh, me too. Both with the popping crappy locks with bobby pins and the wanting to learn how to pick locks.