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I was searching who developed the Mutual Information technique, and I found This article. There, WR Ashby is cited as the author of the technique. In fact, in Google Scholar, the citation can be found as here (first item). Mutual Information is an important technique in several disciplines. If this page is related to the same person, this info should be posted. -- Sergio Iván Castro Piedrahíta ( talk) 00:31, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
In Measuring the Internal Information Exchange Ashby cites Shannon and McGill for the "transmission" H(A) + H(B) - H(A,B), which is equivalent to the mutual information. Krippendorf cites this work as extending mutual information to multiple variables. Terminator 2 really happened ( talk) 02:31, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any forums/groups where I can find people who read Ashby's work and with whom I can discuss it? Search for cybernetics mostly turns up AI and other complex fields. If you know of a good community online or yourself have read "An introduction to cybernetics" - give me a shout and leave me a comment on my talk page. Thank you. Drozdyuk ( talk) 12:13, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
In my experience, he was always known as Ross Ashby; William was never used. I have therefore adjusted the first line, and suggest the heading of the whole page is adjusted if others concur. Macdonald-ross ( talk) 07:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
The claim that this concept originated with Ashby is incorrect. It first appears in Kant's Critique of Judgement, page 374 (Google Books version has it on page 202):
In such a natural product as this every part is thought as owing its presence to the agency of all the remaining parts, and also as existing for the sake of the others and of the whole, that is as an instrument, or organ.... The part must be an organ producing the other parts—each, consequently, reciprocally producing the others.... Only under these conditions and upon these terms can such a product be an organized and self-organized being, and, as such, be called a physical end.
This article claims that Ross Ashby's book was the first recorded use of the word "cybernetics" and the term was later used by Norbert Wiener... but this was published in 1956, and Wiener's Cybernetics has already been published in 1947?? DaveApter ( talk) 13:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
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I was searching who developed the Mutual Information technique, and I found This article. There, WR Ashby is cited as the author of the technique. In fact, in Google Scholar, the citation can be found as here (first item). Mutual Information is an important technique in several disciplines. If this page is related to the same person, this info should be posted. -- Sergio Iván Castro Piedrahíta ( talk) 00:31, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
In Measuring the Internal Information Exchange Ashby cites Shannon and McGill for the "transmission" H(A) + H(B) - H(A,B), which is equivalent to the mutual information. Krippendorf cites this work as extending mutual information to multiple variables. Terminator 2 really happened ( talk) 02:31, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any forums/groups where I can find people who read Ashby's work and with whom I can discuss it? Search for cybernetics mostly turns up AI and other complex fields. If you know of a good community online or yourself have read "An introduction to cybernetics" - give me a shout and leave me a comment on my talk page. Thank you. Drozdyuk ( talk) 12:13, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
In my experience, he was always known as Ross Ashby; William was never used. I have therefore adjusted the first line, and suggest the heading of the whole page is adjusted if others concur. Macdonald-ross ( talk) 07:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
The claim that this concept originated with Ashby is incorrect. It first appears in Kant's Critique of Judgement, page 374 (Google Books version has it on page 202):
In such a natural product as this every part is thought as owing its presence to the agency of all the remaining parts, and also as existing for the sake of the others and of the whole, that is as an instrument, or organ.... The part must be an organ producing the other parts—each, consequently, reciprocally producing the others.... Only under these conditions and upon these terms can such a product be an organized and self-organized being, and, as such, be called a physical end.
This article claims that Ross Ashby's book was the first recorded use of the word "cybernetics" and the term was later used by Norbert Wiener... but this was published in 1956, and Wiener's Cybernetics has already been published in 1947?? DaveApter ( talk) 13:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
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