X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbeyond-the-binary.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbeyond-the-binary.md;h=3759276b2622217ea88f8af100d78699cbf89f29;hp=ce223f9a417d47e58e51a03146b212b8d10afe8c;hb=e9350833b6d0196c622806a41756809f4fa28438;hpb=8bfc6b0eab0014f2bdbab7c6c86759e23c62536a diff --git a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md index ce223f9..3759276 100644 --- a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md +++ b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md @@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ Category: other Tags: information theory, deniably allegorical Status: draft -You know what this blog needs? More vectors. You know, like, [lists of numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(mathematics_and_physics))? Looking back over the archives, I find myself _mortified_ at how much time I've _wasted_ writing about things that _aren't math_. (The [effect-size-deflation post](http://unremediatedgender.space/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/) was okay, I _guess_.) +You know what this blog needs? _More vectors_. You know, like, [lists of numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(mathematics_and_physics))? Looking back over the archives, I find myself _mortified_ at how much time I've _wasted_ writing about things that _aren't math_. (The [effect-size-deflation post](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/) was okay, I _guess_.) What was I thinking? Maybe I should just delete it all to spare myself the embarrassment. In any case, this is an information-theory fanblog now! Gender?—I barely _know_ her. +[start by saying it takes 40 bits, then introduce the mass function that lets you compresss] + Let _V_ be a random variable over the sample space {0,1}20, the twenty-dimensional space of binary vectors, and suppose that P(V = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]) = ½, P(V = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]), and P(_V_ = _v_) = 0 for all other _v_ ∈ {0,1}20.