For me, it was approaching it from the information-theoretic perspective. E. T. Jaynes' paper was what made it all click for me: https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/art

For me, it was approaching it from the information-theoretic perspective. E. T. Jaynes' paper was what made it all click for me: https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf Edit: but that was only after I had grokked Shannon's paper on information theory, which I felt was pretty intuitive.