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This could have easily been 3-4 landmark papers, but instead its packed into one cogent idea.

That common interview question about query autocomplete/sentence completion? Shannon solved it and demonstrates it in this paper, almost a decade before FORTRAN existed. New grads still struggle with that problem. PhD's still struggle with that problem.

Pretty much every machine learning classifier is using a loss function described in that paper.

After skimming the first page I now feel slightly foolish for not having realised before that a bit is short for binary digit.

I always thought it'd be a really cool start-up idea to have a service that prints, binds, etc.. and mails you within a few days a printed paper like this.

I probably have 10 papers floating around, loose pages. Annoying. I print them when I want to read them but of course rarely can immediately.