Example sentences for: shannon

How can you use “shannon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This compression has, of course, a limit (we cannot convey the universe in a single point), and the mere existence of an optimal code is central to Shannon's idea.

  • Shannon considered the entropy of a source sending a prospective signal as the set of possible messages that might be sent, where each message was to be weighted by the probability of actually being sent.

  • The link to information due to Shannon comes next.

  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.

  • As a reasonable but arbitrary cut-off, we include apparently unselected variants if they are among the 2 H+σmost frequent variants, where H is the Shannon information content of the site and σ is the standard error of its estimation [ 55].


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