Phil

In the not so distant past, these personal foibles were sterilized from the substance of ideas, but for the prying eyes of friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Am in the middle of readying a 1984 transcript of an interview with Claude Shannon (lait.fe.uni-lj.si/gradiva/KK…) where he mentions being a grad student of Hermann Weyl at Princeton. Was amazed to see Weyl was in kind a grad student of David Hilbert. The fabric of the knowledge that influence Shannon, that influences LLMs to this minute is metaphorically resident in the eigenbasis of the very term itself. That is the fabric of the nature of reality they along with Schrödinger, Einstein, von Neumann, etc. is the signal to follow. The noise that Shannon defeated is exactly the problem one must now eliminate as orthogonal to the patterns they memorialized in math. Yet when you know abt their personal choices you will find they each had similar behaviors in their background.