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Learning about Information Theory. It’s pushing me out of my comfort zone. For example, leading me to improve my math skills in order to understand some of the
by denvaar 3y ago
Learning about Information Theory.
It’s pushing me out of my comfort zone. For example, leading me to improve my math skills in order to understand some of the concepts and notations that are used in research papers. Also gives me some context into learning C, a language which I consider low-level as a web developer, and it’s been fun to have to think about things like memory management, along with other things I don’t generally need to consider. It gives me an appreciation for when I’m writing high level code like Elixir or JS, etc.
Compression, which I’d say is an application of information theory is just really interesting to learn about for some reason.
- playing_colours 3y agoWhat sources for learning do you use?
- denvaar 3y agoHere's a few - Book called Compact Data Structures by Gonzalo Navarro https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/compact-data-structures/68A5983E6F1176181291E235D0B7EB44 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/compact-data-structures... - Ben Langmead's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@BenLangmead https://www.youtube.com/@BenLangmead - MIT Open Courseware https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-02-introduction-to-eecs-ii-digital-communication-systems-fall-2012/video_galleries/lecture-videos/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-02-introduction-to-eecs-ii-dig... - Stanford lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv_7iO_xlL0Kz2nU05COpINjU8C0UPICA https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv_7iO_xlL0Kz2nU05COp...