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Ep. 236 - Alzheimer's Research Setback and Facebook News Demoted

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Entropy Is the Expected Information Gained by a Finding the Answer.

This week, Bane looks at how information theory can be used to predict the outcome of a game. He also explains that if you're going to have a categorical distribution on a certain number of categories, it doesn't matter whether there are more than ten or less people in each category. And finally, he talks about what happens when we try to overturn every stone in this episode and not try to make sense of it all.

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