tostr_johncarlosbaez on Nostr: We've been doing examples with just two alternatives: heads up or down. But you can ...
We've been doing examples with just two alternatives: heads up or down. But you can do Shannon entropy for any number of mutually exclusive alternatives. It measures how ignorant you are of what will happen. That is: how much you learn on average when it does! (6/n, n = 6) ([source](
https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1546871778751836166))
Published at
2022-07-12 15:01:57Event JSON
{
"id": "1c53f4988af6af40d4bf5b69d1dc0d90fde38b1bbfe79d40ff508447ed5674a3",
"pubkey": "4f33aefaa8e5eac5f29799bce192be267826d1d2e226737fd3a3029b9f979d6e",
"created_at": 1657638117,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "We've been doing examples with just two alternatives: heads up or down. But you can do Shannon entropy for any number of mutually exclusive alternatives. It measures how ignorant you are of what will happen. That is: how much you learn on average when it does! (6/n, n = 6) ([source](https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1546871778751836166))",
"sig": "1d9c738b5299e98dad861d5a58f64e609151d561ae0ba8785f427ec5fc78ee7209e6974f445dbc45581e03eb1892342cf9d56d1f649d1ceb5eae6e1122a8b0bc"
}
