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Let us take a closer look at Wiener’s quote.
Information is information, not matter or energy.
—Norbert Wiener, “Cybernetics”
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Last accessed: March 2nd, 2017.
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Last accessed: March 2nd, 2017; we added qualifying statements in Wikipedia’s article on PCA, which are omitted here for emphasis.
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In this and the following quotes in this section, emphasis has been added by the present authors.
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Interestingly, the mathematical problem leading to the information bottleneck method is much older. It has been analyzed by Witsenhausen and Wyner in [WW75].
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Throughout this work, the preimage under a function is indicated with square brackets rather than parenthesis to avoid confusion with the inverse function \(g^{-1}(\cdot )\) (if it exists). Moreover, for singletons the curly brackets will be omitted, i.e., \(g^{-1}[y]:=g^{-1}[\{y\}]\).
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Geiger, B.C., Kubin, G. (2018). Introduction. In: Information Loss in Deterministic Signal Processing Systems. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59533-7_1
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