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This scientist is behind the times... new term for 'generic unit of information in abstract communication networks' is "token"
by floatrock 1y ago
This scientist is behind the times... new term for 'generic unit of information in abstract communication networks' is "token"
- mattslip 1y agoNice one
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- Anon84 1y agoIn their defense, this is from 2022 before tokens were popularized
- woopsn 1y agoThe generic unit of information is still the "bit", and the word "word" -- which is not a unit of information, depending on entropy of the encoding -- is still standard terminology in communication theory.