Like seemingly everyone in LA, I have recently been bitten by the Sudoku bug, a craze which swept England last spring. The Los Angeles Times started publishing these puzzles a few weeks ago. Like many geeks, this addiction not only involves solving them with a pencil, but solving and generating them with a computer. I […]

When we say things like: “That picture is too noisy” “The room is too cluttered” “This song is boring” “That script has good pacing” “Put some reverb on that mic” We are unintentionally invoking the spirit of Claude Shannon, who first described Information Theory in the late 1940s, at the dawn of the information age. […]