An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.
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Contents:
0:00 What is Wordle?
2:43 Initial ideas
8:04 Information theory basics
18:15 Incorporating word frequencies
27:49 Final performance

Original wordle site:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/

Shannon and von Neumann artwork by Kurt Bruns.
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Code for this video:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/m...'>https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/m...

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https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq#manim'>https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq#manim
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

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Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
German: Thadaeus, styrix560, wolfsgier



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