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How data analysis of languages is helping us in the search for aliens

Leon Lin
Jun 24, 2020
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Zipf's law and Shannon's information entropy can help us find alien life

How can we find alien life?

We've talked about how machine learning companies use data to recognise text and how investors use data to pick companies.

This week, let's talk about how scientists are using data to look for aliens. Some of the content below will draw from Lauranc…

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