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A brief tutorial on information theory

Tarek Tohme, William Bialek

SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 87 (2024) · published 23 September 2024

Part of the 2023-07: Theoretical Biological Physics 2023 Collection in the Les Houches Summer School Lecture Notes Series.

Abstract

At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the scheduled lectures. This is largely a transcript of that tutorial, lightly edited. It covers basic definitions and context rather than detailed calculations. We hope to have maintained the informality of the presentation, including exchanges with the students, while still being useful.


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