RE: Shannon called it "communication theory"

[Ignacio Castillo]

If this is so, are bits from apples different than bits from oranges?
Assume that there exists one probability scheme for the apples and one
for the oranges.

Ignacio Castillo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Landauer [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 4:34 PM
> To:   address@hidden
> Subject:      Shannon called it "communication theory"
> 
> 
> it was somebody else, later, who called it "information theory", thus
> confusing the issue of information as a measure of uncertainty or
> potential
> surprise reduction in a system COMPLETELY CHARACTERIZED by
> probabilities, and
> information as we might normally construe the term non-technically
> 
> this confusion has caused an enormous amount of nonsense to be
> published by
> people who forget that you need to have a probability distribution
> before the
> theory has any meaning at all, and that different probability
> distributions or
> different definitions of fundamental units (the points over which the
> probability is distributed) make the values completely different
> 
> i basically agree with the technical definition given already (just so
> you
> know that i'm only complaining about one thing 8-))
> 
> more later,
> cal
> 
> Dr. Christopher Landauer
> Aerospace Integration Science Center
> The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214
> P.O.Box 92957
> Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA
> e-mail: address@hidden
> Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                   ==================================
>    Swarm-Modelling is for discussion of Simulation and Modelling
> techniques
>    esp. using Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
> [un]subscribing),
>    please send a message to <address@hidden> with "help" in the
>    body of the message.
>                   ==================================


                  ==================================
   Swarm-Modelling is for discussion of Simulation and Modelling techniques
   esp. using Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp. [un]subscribing),
   please send a message to <address@hidden> with "help" in the
   body of the message.
                  ==================================