Compression of random binary data
Peter Pearson
pkpearson at nowhere.invalid
Sat Oct 28 16:03:45 EDT 2017
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:26:11 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> . . . Shannon entropy is correctly calculated for a data source,
> not an individual message . . .
Thank you; I was about to make the same observation. When
people talk about the entropy of a particular message, you
can bet they're headed for confusion.
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