I read Mathematical Theory of Communication at a dear professor's request. It blew me completely away, if only because it was so simple (elegant?) and easy to follow, but ground breaking. Spent a semester debating switching from cs to pure mathematics because of that paper. Kind of wish I had.

Shannon died in 2001 in a nursing home from Alzheimer disease. Knowing that fills me with such a deep sadness, and a dash of complete panic at the reminder that shit just ain't fair.

Fuck Alzheimers.