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This could have easily been 3-4 landmark papers, but instead its packed into one cogent idea.

That common interview question about query autocomplete/sentence completion? Shannon solved it and demonstrates it in this paper, almost a decade before FORTRAN existed. New grads still struggle with that problem. PhD's still struggle with that problem.

Pretty much every machine learning classifier is using a loss function described in that paper.




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