Posts tagged #Math

A proof.

Claude Shannon's A mathematical theory of communication is an oft cited classic in information theory. Let's dive in and try to tease apart the "why"s that are often overlooked when people build on top of the introduced theory. They are definitely things that I didn't consider to be obvious without the benefit of reading the paper.

Given a set of tasks, incentives are often aligned towards dropping a task rather than allowing for perpetual accretion of delays.