Re:A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
by alberto_ol on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:19AM
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can someone suggest good videos about information theory?
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Re:A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
by adamisntdead on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:22AM
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I'm a big fan of this video from Reducible on Huffman codes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3y0RsVCyrw, and from 3Blue1Brown on Hamming codes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA
Re:A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
by alberto_ol on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:09AM
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Thanks.
To be more specific, i'm interested in learning Shannon's information theory from scratch.
So far I know just the definition of entropy.
Re:A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos
by tlb on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:25AM
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Shannon's book, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, is approachable with the mathematical background of first-year college calculus. I don't think it requires any more math than is essential to understand the topic.