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“Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.”

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Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. He is renowned for his creation of the Z1, the world's first programmable computer, which he constructed in his parents' living room. Zuse's contributions to computing have been instrumental in shaping modern computer architecture and programming. more

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