An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.
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Contents:
0:00 – What is Wordle?
2:43 – Initial ideas
8:04 – Information theory basics
18:15 – Incorporating word frequencies
27:49 – Final performance

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Music by Vincent Rubinetti.

Shannon and von Neumann artwork by Kurt Bruns.

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