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Person

Claude Shannon

timeless4 connections

measured information in bits and proved that a channel has a speed limit

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell is no mode × L7. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointClaude Shannonnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

03The Bitact II · The Substrate06Channelsact II · The Substrate15The Bottleneckact IV · The Learning Floor

Where it comes from

paperA Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude E. Shannon · 1948

Every connection

All 4 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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