From 47e53b3859bb0b804a3f94963e90cd0251bcee22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: inclusive-coding-bot Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 04:52:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Switch to gender neutral terms --- cryptography/README.md | 2 +- machine_learning/README.md | 2 +- physics/README.md | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/cryptography/README.md b/cryptography/README.md index 3193fcd..dbcd839 100644 --- a/cryptography/README.md +++ b/cryptography/README.md @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ The original classified memo for Bell Labs that was republished in 1949 as ["Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems"](communication-theory-of-secrecy-systems.pdf). ### :scroll: [A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)](../information_theory/a-mathematical-theory-of-communication-1948.pdf) - Shannon -Shannon said that his wartime insights into communication theory and cryptography developed simultaneously and that "they were so close together you couldn’t separate them". ["Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems"](communication-theory-of-secrecy-systems.pdf) incorporates many concepts and formulations that also appeared in his 1948 paper. +Shannon said that their wartime insights into communication theory and cryptography developed simultaneously and that "they were so close together you couldn’t separate them". ["Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems"](communication-theory-of-secrecy-systems.pdf) incorporates many concepts and formulations that also appeared in their 1948 paper. diff --git a/machine_learning/README.md b/machine_learning/README.md index 550667c..0d953e3 100644 --- a/machine_learning/README.md +++ b/machine_learning/README.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ * [Truncation of Wavelet Matrices: Edge Effects and the Reduction of Topological Control](https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/0024379594000395?token=EB0AA78D59A9648480596F018EFB72E0A02FD5FA70326B24B9D501E1A6869FE72CC4D97FA9ACC8BAB56060D6C908EC83) by Freedman - In this paper by Michael Hartley Freedman, he applies Robion Kirby “torus trick”, via wavelets, to the problem of compression. + In this paper by Michael Hartley Freedman, they applies Robion Kirby “torus trick”, via wavelets, to the problem of compression. ## Hosted Papers diff --git a/physics/README.md b/physics/README.md index 1443750..67eec3a 100644 --- a/physics/README.md +++ b/physics/README.md @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Description by Tom Santero: - > In 1984 Leslie Lamport began to observe the glitch problem [0] occurs in everyday life. Realizing this phenomenon had not been discussed by psychologists of the day, he set out to describe his observations using the classical formalization of Buridan's ass. Lamport initially failed to have this paper published in various scientific journals, being rejected on grounds of superficiality. It wasn't until 2011, when a reader suggested he resubmit to Foundations of Physics, that the paper was eventually published. + > In 1984 Leslie Lamport began to observe the glitch problem [0] occurs in everyday life. Realizing this phenomenon had not been discussed by psychologists of the day, they set out to describe their observations using the classical formalization of Buridan's ass. Lamport initially failed to have this paper published in various scientific journals, being rejected on grounds of superficiality. It wasn't until 2011, when a reader suggested they resubmit to Foundations of Physics, that the paper was eventually published. - > Those familiar with the works of Lamport know him as a logician, his life's work has pushed forward the state of the art in areas of mutual exclusion and distributed systems probably more than any other, and so reading Buridan's Principle might strike us as a bit odd, or even obscure. We're in unfamiliar territory with Lamport. Nonetheless, in this paper, Lamport's casual observations lead him to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences, providing us readers with what appears to be a universal law of nature: Buridan's Principle. + > Those familiar with the works of Lamport know them as a logician, their life's work has pushed forward the state of the art in areas of mutual exclusion and distributed systems probably more than any other, and so reading Buridan's Principle might strike us as a bit odd, or even obscure. We're in unfamiliar territory with Lamport. Nonetheless, in this paper, Lamport's casual observations lead them to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences, providing us readers with what appears to be a universal law of nature: Buridan's Principle. > [0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/glitch.pdf