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Dec 10, 2010 ∞

information considered and reconsidered

information considered and reconsidered

Here’s a wonderful little post by James Gleick about the meaning of the word “information,” according to the OED. A palace indeed. This reminds of of one of my favorite books, Jeremy Campbell’s Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life

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