Posts tagged #Entropy

An Intuition on Shannon Entropy

An allegorical pencil drawing of an ornate scale. The left pan represents 'Information' with a neat pile of books and scrolls. The right pan represents 'Uncertainty' with a chaotic vortex of dissolving papers, gears, and symbols. The scale is in perfect equilibrium, illustrating the conceptual balance between order and disorder.

Develop an intuition for Shannon entropy as a measure of information content. Using the game 'Guess Who' as a practical example, this post explains how entropy quantifies the reduction in ambiguity and builds up the mathematical formulation from basic principles.