In this class we talked about signal to noise ratio. We also talked about A Life At Play where we talked about Shannon. His work is reconsidering the process of communication. In the beginning of the class My professor taught us that the signal means what you want to hear and the that noise is everything but the signal. For an idealist (which I am) the signal would be the ideal for them.

Something to take away from the book is that language is full of redundancy the example we got (which is hilarious by the way) was U ppl dnt reed t bok which most people will read easily as you people didn’t read the book. The key point in this was that we do not need a lot of letters to make a sentence, or even a word. The biggest thing I took away from the class is that Information and meaning are two different things and that Information theory is indifferent to meaning.

We also listened/ watched the teacher make a song on garage band that was both really good and slightly triggering.

-Andrea Moye