Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

Introduction to Renormalization

Lead instructor: Simon DeDeo

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Question 1: Which of these distributions has the highest entropy?
Answer 1: A. A coin toss, where the coin can come up either heads or tails, with 50% probability.
Answer 2: B. A coin toss where the coin is heads on both sides.
Answer 3: C. A computer program that spits out one of the 26 letters in the English language uniformly at random.
Answer 4: D. Sticking your hand in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and pulling out a letter (ignoring whether it is upper or lower-case).