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Does this answer your question? Is there a Google Drive client available?

hi all

@TedShifrin glad to find you still active here Prof, really benefited from your lectures and messages here, ty

Hi all

great teacher though.

now better

that's pijamas!

my multivariable probability prof yesterday

hi

hello

lol

whatever

I gotta ask a prof I guess

no one knows?

I've been self-studying Information Theory, mainly from Ash and Shannon-Weaver, Roman. Why we assume for the development of the theory that the probability of error for a single random variable trasmitted is $p < 1/2$?

some help on information theory?

hi

Any help on information theory?

@MikeMiller thank you nonetheless.

@MikeMiller some help on information theory

Bye!

hahaha

@TedShifrin only 2 students passed with 5/10

@TedShifrin did you read my comment

What's the equivalent of a C in a scale of ten

@AndrewThompson a prof of us passed only 2 students with 5 out of 10 this semester

@AndrewThompson you lean towards pure mathematics?

@AndrewThompson you have any idea on that

@AndrewThompson 4.5 as far as I see

then we have to choose other 20 courses from a short list

@TedShifrin no, there are 20 required courses ranging from Linear algebra to complex analysis

I guess I'm going to ask the teaching prof for that, although I won't take the course.

@TedShifrin we take Information Theory as an undergraduate course on 4th year, along with error-correcting codes.

You seem to be a great teacher, although I remember you said many students don't agree on that.

@TedShifrin I recall you are retired now, I've been watching your lectures on multivariable calculus

@TedShifrin my previous username as Nickolas

@TedShifrin Hello Ted

A reason I think may be is that the entropy $H(X)$ for the random variables $X_1,X_2, ..,X_n$ has a bound $H(X) \leq logn$, where equality holds for $p_i = 1/n, ~ \forall i=1,2,..,n$ e.g when tossing a fair coin. If the trial of error is $p=1/2$ we get maximum entropy, so there's no reason to work for $p> 1/2$

I've been self-studying Information Theory, mainly from Ash and Shannon-Weaver, Roman. Why we assume for the development of the theory that the probability of error for a single random variable trasmitted is $p < 1/2$ ?

Howdy

ok, I think I get your point, $\omega$ is a differential form on $S$

@s.harp just found out that statement $\int_{S} d \omega = \int_{\theta S} \omega $ is on the cover on Zorich's book, I got a copy in my library

okay will download the e-book from springer

on diff geometry I've been studying from kreyszig, you refer to this book? springer.com/us/book/9780387906133

ok thanks, my calculus book just mentions ffc won't work on multiple integrals and just throws the theorems

Is that referred in a book or something

Sweet @s.harp

I've been wondering why in Stokes, Green and Gauss theorems the integral over the region always involves some kind of derivatives and the integral over the boundary doesn't (in Gauss it's div, in Stokes it's rot etc)

Illuminati!