The multifaceted nature of information, with the concept appearing in different guises in a variety of domains, from the physical to the social, has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years, with the emergence of a range of unifying theories of information. In this short post, I mention some publications on the topic… Continue reading Four (and more) faces of information
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Entropy. How little we (still) know,
Entropy, and its complex and subtle relations with information, has been an interest of mine for a long while, a paper on the subject being updated by posts on this blog. Since the last blog post, a number of interesting ideas have been put forward. The first is not really new, having been made available… Continue reading Entropy. How little we (still) know,
Zipf’s Law and the mathematics of the physical world
Zipf's law, and the family of associated power laws, which govern the frequency distribution of words in natural language, and many other things, are well known in the information sciences as the foundations of bibliometrics. An intriguing new study by a group of physicists from Oxford, Paris, and Portsmouth, reported in a paper in the… Continue reading Zipf’s Law and the mathematics of the physical world
