Avijit Dasgupta
tensormultiplier.bsky.social
Avijit Dasgupta
@tensormultiplier.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student at IIIT Hyderabad

http://avijit9.github.io
Reposted by Avijit Dasgupta
Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.

(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)

Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.
December 9, 2024 at 10:44 PM