Thursday 19 September 2013

Redundancy and Entropy

Redundancy

'..is that which is predictable or conventional in a message... redundancy is the result of high predictability' 
Redundancy is what we see as kind of the norm and is necessary in order to make effective communications. 

Entropy

'..unpredictability'

Entropy is what is not expected, a text is entropic if it contains unpredictable elements

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