Contributor info: Mr Tarek Tohme

Tarek Tohme, William Bialek

SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 87 (2024) · published 23 September 2024 | Toggle abstract · pdf

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.