X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbeyond-the-binary.md;h=f30b531a6452bb02c261052395d738ff825af16d;hp=3759276b2622217ea88f8af100d78699cbf89f29;hb=1dcebd37bb8d81ef6be76948ccec5c9dfd0c92c9;hpb=9f1d0e578dd0417672ea67a068a34129238ec67f diff --git a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md index 3759276..f30b531 100644 --- a/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md +++ b/content/drafts/beyond-the-binary.md @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ You know what this blog needs? _More vectors_. You know, like, [lists of numbers 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. -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. + +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.