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You are mistaking words for information. This message has few dozens words but much more information :)
by mapcars 8y ago
You are mistaking words for information. This message has few dozens words but much more information :)
- habitue 8y agoOh, no way. The information conveyed through human language is an abysmal drip compared to the actual number of letters used to spell it out. Even without knowing anything semantic, compression algorithms can squeeze text down to much fewer bits. And both of our minds together have a shared dictionary of concepts and thoughts gzip doesn't have access to. The actual number of bits conveyed is rather low.
- brainwad 8y agoEnglish contains around one or two bits of information per character, so actually they are basically correct. See http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~cover/papers/transIT/0413cove.pdf http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~cover/papers/transIT/0413cove.p... and http://www.anthology.aclweb.org/J/J92/J92-1002.pdf http://www.anthology.aclweb.org/J/J92/J92-1002.pdf.