LaLaLatte

Danger! Lottsa MLB NFL tweets ahead. BlueJays have my heart. Will bandwagon for beer. Icon disclaimer: Imma Gurl

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Sweeet Clementiiime 🎶

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

@HERDchronicles Bush partyyyy

[dianna @runwildkian]

It’s a Young meet up at first base!

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Number 2 with no special characters 😂

[Blue Jays Aggregator @bluejaysaggr]

BLUE JAYS
'The Iowa Meat Truck' rides to victory as best nickname in the Minors

By Ben Weinrib

https://t.co/GcL9qxC2Ub

[Michael Clair @michaelsclair]

Louis Varland has become an almost every day presence for the Blue Jays -- something that the pitcher likes and thinks he needs to be at his sharpest. I spoke with the former DII pitcher about his rise to crucial cog in the bullpen: https://t.co/VV3EqitzkV

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

@KevinGausman Jays on the half shell, make some noise!

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Omg that faaace 😍

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

@cheechoo98 After careful observation I say ban the red belts 😉

[Bartolo Colón @BColon40]

@Mets I might have more in the tank.

[Now Toronto @nowtoronto]

It's been seven years since beloved local radio host, indie music champion and tastemaker Dave “Bookie” Bookman passed away, and two of his friends are putting on the third annual tribute show in his memory. #Concerts #Toronto

https://t.co/mmfvDT2VzK

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Stoopid Trop. Where do I sign up for the Drunk Johns Fan blog?

[Andrew Stoeten @AndrewStoeten]

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Dear Johns... - by Andrew Stoeten https://t.co/ErkZNnl7yc

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Rcvd BlueJays in Buffalo for my birthday. Tons of photos, great memories and remembering guys! Looking forward to reading this tonight 🤗

[The Herd Chronicles @HERDchronicles]

Now available on :

Amazon 🇺🇸: https://t.co/v8pnaLcrXx

Amazon 🇨🇦: https://t.co/0pv8ipZnd6

[FunBaseballFacts @FunBaseballFact]

An absolute classic…

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Call him uppp 😍

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

You never forget your first Vladdy ab

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

@Road_Guy_Colin Youppi! 😉

[Rolly @cubancigarluvr]

Shelter pup fetching bats!

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

Mine is the sound Sideshow Bob makes when he steps on a rake

[Josh Weinstein @Joshstrangehill]

Yes! I was just able to use this line in a conversation, once again!

It's my #1 most used Simpsons quote (And it might even be my line)

My #2 most used line is Moe's "Pret-ty clevah!" from "Hurricane Neddy"

What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote?

(Used in regular conversation)

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

I'm very here for the weird rooms collection 👀

[Adam McCalvy @AdamMcCalvy]

For the “weird rooms in stadiums series,” this time from Comerica Park in Detroit. Ceiling? Or oscillating?

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"I'll wait here"

[LaLaLatte @captainlatte]

I need to know more about that trumpet

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood.

Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively.

That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age.

The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory.

At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century.

Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false.

Nobody had ever connected these two things.

His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches.

Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century."

Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight.

At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists.

During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill.

In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power.

When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard.

At 32, he defined what information is.

His 1948 paper introduced one equation:
H = −Σ p(x) log p(x)

Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message.

Three things followed:

> He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name.

> He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it.

> He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time.

Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought."

Where his equation lives in AI today:

Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy.

Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it.

He also built the first AI learning device.

In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI."

That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field.

The man:
He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house.

He called his home Entropy House.

When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together."

In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead.

One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference."

He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was.

Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.