Steven
Just to register.
I watched all Khan Academy videos.
They are awesome!
I will use them with my students.
Thank you.
Best
--
Moisés André Nisenbaum
Doutorando IBICT/UFRJ. Professor. Msc.
Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - IFRJ
Campus Maracanã
moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br
2015-09-09
Reminders of old news.
In defense of Stan: The use of the term "variety" as a generic stand-in for
Shannon's concept of signal entropy traces to W. Ross Ashby, in his
excellent effort to demystify information theory and cybernetics for the
nontechnical reader. It is appropriate, then, to assume
I'll have to weigh in with Stan on this one. Stan earlier had defined
information more generally as "constraint". It is convenient to employ the
IT calculus to separate constraint from indeterminacy. This is possible in
complete abstraction from anything to do with communication.
The ability to
Pedro wrote"
>Most attempts to enlarge informational thought and to extend it to life,
economies, societies, etc. continue to be but a reformulation of the former
ideas with little added value.
S: Well, I have generalized the Shannon concept of information carrying
capacity under 'variety'...
Cari Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Pedro e Tutti,
proprio da qualche mese ho iniziato a scrivere un libro in cui, fra
l'altro, affronto ancora una volta il tema dell'informazione dell'armonia o
dell'armonia dell'informazione. Specialmente in questi giorni, dopo avere
passato in rassegna le diverse
Dear Steven and FIS colleagues,
Many thanks for this opening text. What you are proposing about a pretty
structured discussion looks a good idea, although it will have to
confront the usually anarchic discussion style of FIS list! Two aspects
of your initial text have caught my attention (apart
In a message dated 9/11/2015 8:15:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es writes:
Dear Steven and FIS colleagues,
Many thanks for this opening text. What you are proposing about a pretty
structured discussion looks a good idea, although it will have to
confront the
Dear Steven, Pedro and List:
Two excellent posts!
Steven: I look forward to your ratiocinations and there connectivity with
symbolic logic.
It is my view that one of the foundational stumbling blocks to communication
about syntactical information theory (and its exactness!) is the
