Steve D'Aprano wrote:
I don't think that's right. The entropy of a single message is a well-defined
quantity, formally called the self-information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-information
True, but it still depends on knowing (or assuming) the
probability of getting that particular message out of
the set of all possible messages.
This is *not* what danceswithnumbers did when he
calculated the "entropy" of his example bit sequences.
He didn't define the set they were drawn from or
what their probabilities were.
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