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Shannon's Entropy Experiment
« on: November 01, 2011, 11:15:27 PM »
Claude Shannon, who started information theory, came up with this game which a clever programmer turned into a Java applet:
http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/ENTROPY/

It's actually fairly challenging, especially since the phrases that result seem to be kind of random and not based on any quotes that *I* know.