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		tedunangst on March 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An open letter to Netflix from the authors of the ... Birthday encodes a lot more than one bit of information. The above example was a series of factors that reduced the identified population in half.

gwern on March 15, 2010 [–]

Alright; would you prefer me to redo it with pieces of information each worth 7 bits?

'The first piece cuts it down to 2.3 million people...'

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