Year: 2018

A Mind at Play

Jovan Stosic December 22, 2018

I didn’t like the term Information Theory. Claude didn’t like it either. You see, the term ‘information theory’ suggests that it is a theory about information—but it’s not. It’s the transmission of information, not information. Lots of people just didn’t understand this.

A Mind at Play was last modified: December 22nd, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

James Watson

Jovan Stosic December 22, 2018

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticistand zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson

James Watson was last modified: December 22nd, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

Converse

Jovan Stosic December 21, 2018

Switching the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional statement. For example, the converse of “If it is raining then the grass is wet” is “If the grass is wet then it is raining.”

Note: As in the example, a proposition may be true but have a false converse.

Converse was last modified: December 21st, 2018 by Jovan Stosic