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... Information Source ' , which originates a message , we need a transmitter , which first translates the message into ... theory . It deals with choice out of a defined set of possibles . If we were dealing with the Russian alphabet , with ...
... Information Source ' , which originates a message , we need a transmitter , which first translates the message into ... theory . It deals with choice out of a defined set of possibles . If we were dealing with the Russian alphabet , with ...
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... Information Theory is that it brought home the crucial point that there is more to the world than the physical factors of position , mass , acceleration and so on , or the chemical factors of atomic and molecular composition . It ...
... Information Theory is that it brought home the crucial point that there is more to the world than the physical factors of position , mass , acceleration and so on , or the chemical factors of atomic and molecular composition . It ...
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... Theory emphasized ; but not specificity defined as meaningless ' information ' ( or negentropy ) ; but rather specifi- city which is in the form of instructions , or program for action ( or ' algorithms ' , if you must have an ...
... Theory emphasized ; but not specificity defined as meaningless ' information ' ( or negentropy ) ; but rather specifi- city which is in the form of instructions , or program for action ( or ' algorithms ' , if you must have an ...
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