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For the vast bulk of messages, in fact, symbols do not behave like fair coins. The symbol that is sent now depends, in important and predictable ways, on the symbol that was just sent: one symbol has a “pull” on the next. Take an image: Hartley showed how to measure its information content by gauging the intensity of each “elementary area.” But in images that resemble anything other than TV static, intensities are not splattered randomly across the pixels: each pixel has pull. A light pixel is more likely to appear next to a light pixel, a dark next to a dark.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
For those interested in the fundamental structure of the physical world, the experimental verification of violations of Bell’s inequality constitutes the most significant event of the past half-century
Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity_ Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics
Tim Maudlin
A popular belief about “rationality” is that rationality opposes all emotion—that all our sadness and all our joy are automatically anti-logical by virtue of being feelings. Yet strangely enough, I can’t find any theorem of probability theory which proves that I should appear ice-cold and expressionless.
Feeling Rational - LessWrong
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