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adamisntdead
on Sept 1, 2021
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A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics video...
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
alberto_ol
on Sept 1, 2021
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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.
tlb
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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.
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