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davidh
November 16th, 2006, 09:34 PM
Haven't seen marijke around for a while. Hope she's well. Did a search on google for [marijke maxwellian]

Found some interesting technical papers:

Does the Universe in Fact Contain Almost No Information?
A controversial paper by Max Tegmark suggesting that the algorithmic information content of the universe as a whole is close to zero.

Information: the Concept
An introductory article on information and probability distributions( version of 98-06-10). The first in a sequence of introductory articles on information and probability distributions by Marijke van Gans.

http://www.excite.co.uk/directory/Science/Math/Applications/Information_Theory/Papers

DH