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Uh. Hello? Is anybody out there?
Are people still interested in continuing? No one picked up the leadership torch as Morendil had asked, so I suppose he is well justified in not picking it up again himself. I don't want to be a real "leader" here, but it makes sense to me to suggest the assignment of reading through section 3.7 and exercises through 3.5 (in the book) by, say, the 29th. Someone else can suggest the next chunk if they wish.
I would request that anyone who wants to proceed respond to this comment. My guess is that we only have a half-dozen or so left, but it would be nice to know for sure.
You mentioned that you had better explanations for some ch 2 material, still planning to post?
Right now I'm leaning against. It is a bigger job than I want to attempt for my posting debut. Sorry. Maybe someday.
But the basic idea was mentioned in this comment and there are links to some follow-up material in some of the comments. It is not that big a deal, but it seems to me that everything becomes a little more intuitive when you are adding and subtracting "surprisals" rather than multiplying and dividing probabilities.