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Funny timing. Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast had an episode about Shannon. He sounds like a fun guy to have been around.

https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-fritterin-aw...

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The timing is a little less funny if you know that I listened to the podcast shortly before finding the IEEE article.

The podcast was great! I would think that many on HN would find it interesting.

There's a passable movie called "the bit player" currently on amazon and I guess elsewhere.

I'd never heard of him, and that's embarrassing, but he probably prefers it that way :-).

Cautionary Tales is my favourite podcast. Most episodes concern either interesting (mis)use of statistics or cognitive biases, both of which are topics I find inherently interesting, but Tim Harford and team do a brilliant job of the storytelling too.

Tim Harford's other podcasts are great too - More or Less, and 50 Things Which Made the Modern Economy.

Does anyone have any recommendations along similar lines?

He also hosted 'How to Vaccinate the World', and interviewed some heavy-hitters like Bill Gates. The series is over now but was very interesting.

It was so endearing to head about Shannon spending his time as an illustrious academic learning to juggle, then unicycle, then both at the same time.

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