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Measuring uncertainty/information. Binary search games. Uncertainty associated with probability distributions. Messages and alphabets. The Maximum Entropy Principle.
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Lawrence, A. (2019). Information, Uncertainty, and Surprise. In: Probability in Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04544-9_11
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