Etc.

Trivia

I am a sansei. My second name, Koji (Kōji), is a reference to my grandfather’s name. In Japanese, my name is written 宮本 エンヒッケ 弘二.

My mother tongue is Brazilian Portuguese.

I am a fan of Studio Ghibli films, and of Joe Hisaishi’s soundtracks. My favourite film is Princess Mononoke.

My MR collaboration distance to Claude Shannon is 4.

I came from Bahia:

Eu vim
Eu vim da Bahia cantar
Eu vim da Bahia contar
Tanta coisa bonita que tem
Na Bahia, que é meu lugar
Tem meu chão, tem meu céu, tem meu mar

(Eu Vim da Bahia - João Gilberto)

Interesting links

Articles

Research and society

• The push for open access is making science less inclusive. Alicia Kowaltowski, Marcus Oliveira, Ariel Silber and Hernan Chaimovich, Times Higher Education (2021).
• Corrigir o desastre da Internet (in Portuguese or Spanish). Delia Rodríguez, El País (2018).
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Martin A. Schwartz, Journal of Cell Science (2008).

Information theory

• How Shannon entropy imposes fundamental limits on communication. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine (2022).
• How Claude Shannon invented the future. David Tse, Quanta Magazine (2020).
• How to use a sphere to talk to Mars. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine (2017).

Videos

• Solving Wordle using information theory, 3Blue1Brown (2022).
• Why we should invest in rat massage, MinuteEarth (2019).
• Information Theory playlist, Art of the Problem.
• IEEE ITsoc videos, Art of the Problem series.
• The Bit Player (documentary film about Claude Shannon), Mark A. Levinson (2019).

Miscellaneous

• minutephysics
• PHD Comics
• xkcd
• A “proof by contradiction” to why research in mathematics should be funded.

“É preciso estar atento e forte / Não temos tempo de temer a morte.”