Grant,
This seems backwards to me, but I got properly thrashed for my last few
postings so I am putting my hat over the wall very carefully here.
I thought..i thought .. the information in a message was the number of bits
by which the arrival of the message decreased the uncertainty of
Nick: Next you are in town, lets read the original Shannon paper together.
Alas, it is a bit long, but I'm told its a Good Thing To Do.
-- Owen
On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Grant,
This seems backwards to me, but I got properly thrashed for my last few
It seems backwards to almost everybody. Me too. So much so that this
little conundrum pushed me to take a deeper look into information theory.
The key for me was realizing that I.T. is addressing how much
information THERE IS in a situation (probability distribution) -
rather than how much
Is anybody else tickled at how this Quote Of The Week elicited a flood of
philosophical observations?
--Doug
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
From the BBC's science podcast The Infinite Monkey
Cagehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc
:
Oops. I meant to say I am very tickled! (not ticked :-{ )
Grant
On 6/6/11 9:48 AM, Grant Holland wrote:
I'm very ticked. The point seems to be that one pick your favorite -
philosophy, physics,... is supreme within some dependency hierarchy
of disciplines.
I wondering, epistemologically, if
If you're interested, I've written a wiki
pagehttp://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Entropythat describes
entropy. The goal was to make the concept both rigorous and
intuitive. If you look at it, let me know where it fails.
*-- Russ *
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:08 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES
Doug -
Is anybody else tickled at how this Quote Of The Week elicited a flood
of philosophical observations?
--Doug
Utterly pink! PINK I tell you! And you are making it worse with your
own tickling! /STO/!
I just deleted one of my typical DNRTL (did not read, too long)
missives and
Steve, I promised myself I wouldn't do this, speaking of too long and
don't read and all.
But do you know how powerful you are, just by being superhumanly
articulate?
With one line, emphasizing knowing versus understanding, you directed
the whole stream into a conversation about information
Eric -
But do you know how powerful you are, just by being superhumanly
articulate?
Coming from you, of all people, this itself is a supreme compliment!
One of the reasons I am on this list (and actually read most of it's
traffic!) is that there are a number of incredibly articulate people,
This is has been cooling its bits in the moderator queue for five days.
(Because I appended a maxwell demon cartoon from the principle author's web
page.)
-- rec --
-- Forwarded message --
From: Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Subject: work cost of
From http://sfcomplex.org:
VPYTHON: 3D PROGRAMMING FOR ORDINARY MORTALS
Thursday, June 9, 2011 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood
Professors of Physics Emeriti, North Carolina State University
VPython is a programming environment that enables even novices to
write programs that
Looks like RDF has made a leap forward: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft agree on a
semantic markup:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
So Knowledge Reef (Marco) and Redfish were right about the importance of a
semantic
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