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A brown chimpanzee is playing on a yellow smartphone. Three Wordle blocks are above his head, reading 'Bloat," "Watch," and "Chimp"
Quantized Academy

Why Claude Shannon Would Have Been Great at Wordle

By Patrick Honner
May 25, 2022
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A bit of information theory can help you analyze — and improve — your Wordle game.

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Q&A

Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time and Brains

By Charlie Wood
April 20, 2022
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Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question.

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information theory

Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show

By Mordechai Rorvig
January 6, 2022
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A new result shows that quantum information can theoretically be protected from errors just as well as classical information can.

information theory

Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

By Mordechai Rorvig
November 24, 2021
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By carefully constructing a multidimensional and well-connected graph, a team of researchers has finally created a long-sought locally testable code that can immediately betray whether it’s been corrupted.

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explainers

How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
April 22, 2021
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The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.

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Quantized Columns

How Claude Shannon Invented the Future

By David Tse
December 22, 2020
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Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

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information theory

What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 16, 2020
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To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.

Art for "A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers"
Abstractions blog

A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers

By Kevin Hartnett
April 24, 2019
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Quantum computers can’t selectively forget information. A new algorithm for multiplication shows a way around that problem.

Art for "The Math That Tells Cells What They Are"
mathematical biology

The Math That Tells Cells What They Are

By Jordana Cepelewicz
March 13, 2019
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During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.


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