Lecture

Entropy: Examples and Properties

Description

This lecture covers the concept of entropy in information theory, starting with examples of guessing letters in sequences and calculating entropy. It explores the origins of entropy in physics, the interpretation of entropy in messages, and properties such as concavity and total order. The lecture concludes with inequalities related to entropy calculations.

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