The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes Season 1 Episode 7 Noise and Channel Capacity
- TV-PG
- December 11, 2015
- 31 min
One of the key issues in information theory is noise: the message received may not convey everything about the message sent. Discover Shannon's second fundamental theorem, which proves that error correction is possible and can be built into a message with only a modest slowdown in transmission rate.