One Bit a Letter
Guess the next letter of a sentence until you get it. How far down your guesses the answer sits measures how much English you already know, in bits, and you will beat the machine.
information-theory
3 projects
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deep - 50
The Collision You Did Not Expect
Fifty days in, the last one is about how soon two things land in the same place. It is much sooner than it feels.
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One Bit Too Many
Huffman coding is provably optimal and famously within one bit of entropy. On the right source that one bit is a twelve-fold overhead.