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transfer92 | 2 years ago

I'm either not smart enough to understand it, or I'm too smart to be bamboozled by it.

(Physics A.B. from Harvard & PhD. from UC Berkeley, FWIW)

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akhayam|2 years ago

From someone who has dabbled in information theory (the real one), I am just as confused as you. What I have observed in the past decade is that calling things “information theory of something” makes it somehow more palatable for a broader audience.