<story><title>A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-brief-introduction-to-the-beauty-of-information-theory-8357f5b6a355</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dentalperson</author><text>Shameless plug: I&amp;#x27;m trying to start an online reading group for &amp;quot;Elements of Information Theory&amp;quot; by Cover and Thomas.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested, please join (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;mathreadinggroup&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;mathreadinggroup&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and the discord (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discord.gg&amp;#x2F;D9FjZXs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discord.gg&amp;#x2F;D9FjZXs&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-brief-introduction-to-the-beauty-of-information-theory-8357f5b6a355</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxxy</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny seeing this at the top of HN today. I just wrote a utility in Rust this past weekend to calculate the Shannon and metric entropy of a file (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tuxxy&amp;#x2F;entropy&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tuxxy&amp;#x2F;entropy&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I really love the Shannon entropy equation. I don&amp;#x27;t know why, but I just find it so fascinating and elegant. I love it so much that I even got it tattooed on my wrist recently haha! (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;__tux&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1257737842308022275&amp;#x2F;photo&amp;#x2F;1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;__tux&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1257737842308022275&amp;#x2F;photo&amp;#x2F;1&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>