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		bcoates 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beliefs that are true for regular software but fal... It's been closer to 100 years since we figured out information theory and discredited this idea (that continuous/analog processes have more, or different, information in them than discrete/digital ones)

rightbyte 3 months ago [–]

In theory or in practice? Wouldn't the Nyquist frequency and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle put practical limits.

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