Solving Wordle using information theory

2022-02-06

[public] 5.20M views, 224K likes, dislikes audio only

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.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZpRKhMJnD6/

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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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