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This same video appeared dozens of times over multiple years before the station was wiped out by a [[Un Pueblo De Nada|flood]]. Mimi remarks that the video of Weaver may have been the station's last broadcast before the flood.
The video may be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANymLv0C_pU here].
== Family ==
== Name & references ==
Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician [[wikipedia:Warren Weaver|Warren Weaver]] and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her sistercousin's names reference the [[wikipedia:Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon–Weaver model]] of communication, used in the fields of information theory and telecommunications, and the street name and number of their family's farmhouse, 100 Macondo Lane, are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] in Márquez's novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''.
In [[Act I]], Weaver asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a near-direct quote from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''.
Per the {{V&A}}, Shannon's framing of Weaver – "But Weaver's not a puzzle. She's a mystery." – is a reference to the writings of Gregory Treverton. Treverton differentiates the concepts by describing a puzzle as something solvable if information was not being withheld, while a mystery provides too much information with no guarantee of relevance; puzzles can be solved, but mysteries can only be framed.
=== Development ===
According to [[Jake Elliott]], a character named "Aleks" (seen [[:File:1_ConwayAndAleks.1365634735.jpg|here]]) was "going to be one of the marooned grad students working in Donald's cave/lab". Also referred to as Alejandra, Aleksandr, and Alex, the character Alejandra became the basis for Weaver's design.
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