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Showerthoughts

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Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 week ago by josephmbasile to c/showerthoughts
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They're probably the only things that "create" information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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[–] grue 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Randomness is the opposite of information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It is not. If I in July in Europe will say "there is no snow outside", I give you very little information. If in same conditions I will say "there is snow outside", I will give a lot of information.

Amount of information is proportional to (logarithm of) improbability of outcome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's irrational, which just appears random (which is why I said pseudorandom).