From: "Steve Simon" <steve.simon@snellwilcox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hget
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:19:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8577b4b34e765fb0a35c8e80a7f949c6@snellwilcox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027701c415e0$14053640$c002a8c0@SOMA>
> > > so /dev/null actually gives you information?
> >
> > of course.
>
> i see you're not much of a fan of Shannon:
>
> http://www.lucent.com/minds/infotheory/who.html
But it _does_ give you information.
The quantity of information is equal to log() of the
improbability of that information arriving.
Thus you expected to read a file you got EOF, you get information,
"this file is zero length".
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-30 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-27 0:58 [9fans] rio and acme scrolling Micah Stetson
2004-03-27 1:51 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-27 5:07 ` Micah Stetson
2004-03-27 15:01 ` David Presotto
2004-03-27 15:07 ` Sape Mullender
2004-03-27 15:12 ` David Presotto
2004-03-27 20:58 ` Derek Fawcus
2004-03-27 15:22 ` Richard Miller
2004-03-27 15:36 ` Sape Mullender
2004-03-27 15:38 ` David Presotto
2004-03-27 15:38 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-27 17:03 ` Richard Miller
2004-03-27 16:07 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-27 20:11 ` Micah Stetson
2004-03-27 20:45 ` thinkpads (was Re: [9fans] rio and acme scrolling) Axel Belinfante
2004-03-28 11:07 ` [9fans] rio and acme scrolling matt
2004-03-29 15:18 ` splite
2004-03-27 20:27 ` Micah Stetson
2004-03-27 23:57 ` Micah Stetson
2004-03-27 3:14 ` jmk
2004-03-27 10:21 ` a
2004-03-27 10:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-29 13:41 ` blstuart
2004-03-29 14:33 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-29 14:36 ` matt
2004-03-29 15:57 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-29 17:31 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-03-29 18:42 ` [9fans] hget rog
2004-03-29 19:50 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-29 20:12 ` rog
2004-03-29 20:16 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-29 20:40 ` rog
2004-03-29 20:42 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-29 21:12 ` rog
2004-03-29 22:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-29 21:36 ` rog
2004-03-29 23:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-29 22:48 ` rog
2004-03-29 21:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-29 23:01 ` rog
2004-03-29 22:17 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-29 23:34 ` rog
2004-03-29 22:49 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-30 10:19 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2004-03-30 0:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-29 23:22 ` rog
2004-03-29 19:58 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-29 20:08 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-29 20:18 ` rog
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