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information entropy

noun

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  1. A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable

    A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for information entropy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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