PBS
Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
The people behind the greatest leaps in physics - Einstein, Newton, Heisenberg, all had the uncanny ability to see the fundamentals - see the deepest, underlying facts about the world, and from simple statements about reality they built...
PBS
How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
Entropy is surely one of the most perplexing concepts in physics. It’s variously described as a measure of a system’s disorder - or as the amount of useful work that you can get from it - or as the information hidden by the system....
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Solving Wordle using information theory
An exploration for writing a Wordle solver, with the challenge of not using the official list of Wordle answers (except as a test set), which is really just an excuse for an information theory lesson.
SciShow
Why Do Some Harmonies Sound Prettier Than Others?
Whether your favorite band is One Direction or Slayer, you can probably tell tense chords from relaxed ones, but what exactly gives them those qualities?
TED Talks
TED: Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022 | Elon Musk
In this live, unedited conversation, Elon Musk -- the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company -- digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his...
Curated Video
Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow 2.3: Using Information Theory in Predictive Modeling
This video will first explain you the information theory. We will then see types of entropy. We will use the information theory in Python. • Study the different types of entropy • Use information theory in Python
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Clause Shannon demonstrated how to generate "english looking" text using Markov chains.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electrostatic Telegraphs (Case Study)
Long before the internet people thought about sending information along wires using static electricity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Introduction to Channel Capacity
Introduction to Channel Capacity & Message Space.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Ancient History: The Alphabet
History of the Alphabet. This video introduces the Hieroglyphic, Cuneiform, Hieratic, Demotic & Phoenician writing systems.
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Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Source Encoding
Introduction to coding theory.
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Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Origin of Markov Chains
Introduction to Markov chains.
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Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Measuring Information
How can we quantify/measure an information source?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Ptolemaic: Rosetta Stone
This video was taken at a British museum and it talks about hieroglyphics and Rosetta Stones.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Journey Into Information Theory: Prehistory: Proto Writing
The origin of pictographic & ideographic writing systems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude Shannon demonstrated how to generate 'english looking' text using Markov chains.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Channel Capacity
Introduction to Channel Capacity & Message Space.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Information Entropy
Finally we arrive at our quantitative measure of entropy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Morse Code and the Information Age
Electric Telegraphs and developments leading to Morse Code.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Error Correction
This video lesson discusses "error correction as it pertains to correcting "noise" in computer science. This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking an introductory computer science course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Symbol Rate
This resource provides an introduction to symbol rate. This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking an introductory computer programming course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Source Encoding
This video lesson provides an introduction to coding theory. This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking an introductory computer science course.