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And yet another is David Mackay, who taught me at undergrad: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/ http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
by tehwalrus 13y ago
And yet another is David Mackay, who taught me at undergrad:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/ http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
scroll to the bottom for the free PDF.
(the book is about all sorts of stuff, but compression is the main example used when defining information theory.)
- kevgnulldev 13y agoAlong similar lines, but a more focused book (no learning, etc) is the classic Cover and Thomas: http://www.elementsofinformationtheory.com/ http://www.elementsofinformationtheory.com/
- khafra 13y agoAnd let's not forget Marcus Hutter and Jurgen Schmidhuber, who use compression to explain general reasoning and human curiosity http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html