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by theGnuMe 948 days ago
That's not information theoretic, that's just conditional probability.
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tysam_and 940 days ago
You might want to take another look at Shannon's paper, lol, this statement is quite contradictory. Probability _is_ the backbone of information theory, dude! It's quite incredible.
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nighthawk454 947 days ago
it is conditional probability, but that is a fundamental concept used in information theory
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