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Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms

David MacKay

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Thomas Wolf loved it
"Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" by David MacKay (http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html) is a little gem that explain propabilities and Information theory so clearly it's almost unbelievable.

on thomwolf.io · 1 Jan 2024 · Report

Grant Sanderson recommends it affiliate
Information theory has a way of shaping the way you view many things in math, computer science, physics, and beyond. It's one of those fields that takes ideas that you wouldn't think of as being quantifiable or rigorous and makes them so.

on 3blue1brown.com · 1 Jun 2020 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.