Things I Learned,, an Information Theoretic Approach

Things I Learned at MIT, reanalyzed for strictest compliance with the tenets of information theory


To: cahn@amt.mit.edu
From: AFriend
Subject: Your .plan


I showed it to someone else and got the following.  Maybe there's
another axiom like:
    No matter what you're doing, somebody else already 
    has a better solution.



To: AFriendOfTheFriend
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 15:15:50 PST

a true geek would have ordered them thusly:

0000
0001
0011
0010
0110
0111
0101
0100
1100
1101
1001
1011
1010
1110
1111

thereby guaranteeing only one bit transition per step, for greater
reliability :-)