Video Index
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Apology for the reading
Justin apologizes that the reading was difficult. -
Theory of Meaning
A review of the theory of meaning introduced in the last class. How exactly do we go about ascribing meanings to a word? Everyone has different meaning of words, based on their own experience of it. Would aliens be able to enjoy our music, or is it particular to our culture? Hofsteder argues that there is something fundamental in the patterns of music that cause it to be enjoyable. -
Universal Information
Would aliens enjoy our music? Hofstatder argues they would, because the patterns of information encoded are universal and inherently beautiful. -
Information and Entropy
Information theory -
Number Theory
Outlining typographical number thoery, or TNT. -
Context Free Grammar
Graphical demonstration of context free grammars, using the open source computer program "Context Free".
