timtyler comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 October 2009 06:18:06AM 0 points [-]

For instance:

"GIP is a measure of how much the observed values i in a large population tend to cluster on a few values; if there is no clustering, Gµ=0, and if there is complete clustering on one value, Gµ= log2(Nµ). It is a property of the population, not of an individual."