Re: monkeys, Shakespeare, and Venn

Posted by Steve Smith on May 05, 2011; 1:13am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/off-topic-but-still-tp6327815p6332887.html


> (Venn further points out that, in either case, to actually separate the wheat from
> the chaff you would more or less have to have a Shakespeare on hand
> to read the output and give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.)
And is this in some sense the information theoretic version of Maxwell's
demon in thermodynamics?


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