Summary of Uses of Information Theory - Computerphile

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This video discusses the uses of information theory in computer security, including password management and privacy. The video also mentions a comic strip called "XKCD" in which a user selects four words from a dictionary that have a varying amount of entropy. Information theory is used to measure how much information is known about a data set, and this information can be used to reduce the number of possibilities in a data set.

• 00:00:00 This video discusses the uses of information theory in computer security, including password management and privacy. The video also mentions a comic strip called "XKCD" in which a user selects four words from a dictionary that have a varying amount of entropy.
• 00:05:00 Information theory is used to measure how much information is known about a data set. This information can be used to reduce the number of possibilities in a data set.
• 00:10:00 In this video, the computerphile discusses the uses of information theory, which includes explaining the logarithm and its properties. He then discusses how entropy can be used to calculate the privacy of data. He finishes with a discussion of how entropy can be used to predict outcomes in coin flips.