Information Theory and Information Compression

Information theory is well about information I guess. Two big topics and big ideas in information theory are noisy channels and information compression so noisy channels basically means if I'm sending you a message but the message might be corrupted because there's some noise then how can you still understand the message? How can I send a message which could still be understood even if part of it was corrupted that could be completely recovered is what information compression is all about. That really really got me thinking and made me want to record an episode about thisI've been thinking about this for at least we can more like months actually about this idea It's been coming up again and again in my head is that learning is one

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