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A brief tutorial on information theory

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arxiv 2402.16556 v3 pith:HBC3NSXL submitted 2024-02-26 physics.bio-ph q-bio.MNq-bio.NC

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At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the scheduled lectures. This is largely a transcript of that tutorial, lightly edited. It covers basic definitions and context rather than detailed calculations. We hope to have maintained the informality of the presentation, including exchanges with the students, while still being useful.

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