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How information theory saved my word game(motplot.app)
2 points by jamwise 12 hours ago | 2 comments
jamwise 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Information theory has been a really fascinating topic to get more acquainted with. Not really related to the crossword, but I highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's video "Compression is Intelligence", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DKRf-fAAM

yepyoukno 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Compression is not intelligence.

While intelligence and compression both may have similar goals (to optimize paths of information), intelligence negotiates probability (allowing multiple divergent outcomes) while compression requires an idempotent symbolic translation.