Can someone quickly estimate the max information content of a tweet in bits? (assuming unicode encoding and no links/images)
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. Not a trick question, that seems right. Just wanted to confirm that's the way to estimate it.
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I appear to not quite grok unicode codepoints 🤔
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Isn't that mutual information concept rather than a shannon information measure proper? I am going with 140*32
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But the codepoint space is 32 bit, not sixteen
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I think depends on what mean by data. Could encode text with a compressor



