Talk:Information theory
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A wonderful introduction to information theory can be found in Jeremy Campbell's book Grammatical Man.
Multiple "need attention" requests
This page has three different requests for attention on it.
- On the main page, User:Rvollmert put an attention sticker on it, but didn't (AFAIK) explain what specifically needed attention.
- On Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention, User:Eequor said, "information theory is leaking information." I don't understand what that means.
- Why would it leak? Because it has holes in it. Kevin Baas | talk 16:51, 2004 Sep 7 (UTC)
- On the Talk page(this page),User:Pcarbonn added a Todo list refering to Wikipedia:WikiProject Science, which, at least, has a clear set of things to do. But what about the other two items?
If anyone knows anything about this, please comment. (or just fix it. :-) )
- I think it's really rather stubby, but I don't find anything grossly objectionable in the article. It's only what's not in the article that is the problem. Michael Hardy 15:36, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I agree that the article has nothing wrong in it. So I don't see why we would put the "page needing attention" alert in the face of the casual reader. The to-do list is there to plan enhancements. That's why I removed the "Attention" tag in the article, but I'm still open to discussion... Pcarbonn 18:50, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What should the introduction say ?
In response to Michael Hardy: I don't think that information theory is only of interest to persons who study probability theory as you suggest. Anyone from the general public who would like to understand what "Information theory" is about should be able to find a reasonable answer in this article. So, yes, I believe that the introduction is not satisfactory as it is today. It should clarify what issues information theory helps to understand, what it is used for, and everyday examples where information theory had a role (e.g. compression technologies ?). I studied information theory a while ago, and I do not know all these answers anymore, but would like to refresh my mind... Pcarbonn 18:50, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Article Conflicts
Some of this article needs to be redone. There are conflicts with another article on information entropy. Mainly this article denies the link between thermodynamical entropy and information entropy. However the article on information entropy affirms this link. I'm not specialized in this field but from my own experience many physicists and information theorists believe in such a link. See R. Landauer and C. Bennett. - Paul M. 22 June 2005
- Okay I reverted some edits and made it so the article agrees with the article on information entropy. Also I added some references which back up my edit. - Paul M. 09:19, 22 June 2005
