Information theory

[j4]

I have this theory that some of the documents we're sent for publication on the web are actually intended to contain information.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Is this a Philip Pullman reference? The people I work with don't have souls or anything, you know.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

No, it was Permutation City; the idea that any information you like, up to and including the entire universe, is implicitly present in the same amount of randomly scrambled, or otherwise organised, bits of information.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Given that any set of information requires meta-information in order for it to be intelligible, this is trivially true. All you have to do is use a different decoding algorithm.