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Solving Wordle using information theory

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  • Presented by Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

11M views4 years ago4 recommendations

Computer scienceAlgorithmsComputation and complexityMath for programmers

Grant Sanderson explains the fundamentals of information theory and entropy by building an optimal Wordle-solving algorithm.

An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy. These lessons are funded by viewers: patreon.com/3blue1brown Special thanks to these supporters: 3b1b.co/lessons/wordle#thanks An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Contents: - What is Wordle? - Initial ideas - Information theory basics - Incorporating word frequencies - Final performance Original wordle site: powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Music by Vincent Rubinetti. vincentrubinetti.com/ Shannon and von Neumann artwork by Kurt Bruns. instagram.com/p/CZpRKhMJnD6/ Code for this video: github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2022/wordle These animations are largely made using a custom python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here: 3blue1brown.com/faq#manim github.com/3b1b/manim github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ You can find code for specific videos and projects here: github.com/3b1b/videos/ Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations German: Thadaeus, styrix560, wolfsgier ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate. And you know the drill with YouTube, if you want to stay posted on new videos, subscribe: 3b1b.co/subscribe Various social media stuffs: Website: 3blue1brown.com Twitter: twitter.com/3blue1brown Reddit: reddit.com/r/3blue1brown Instagram: instagram.com/3blue1brown_animations/ Patreon: patreon.com/3blue1brown Facebook: facebook.com/3blue1brown

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What people say. Highly recommended as an exceptionally clear and engaging visual introduction to information theory and entropy.

riveron Lobsters • Recommends

The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
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dowakinon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Play Wordle from Your Terminal”

If you wonder why in the demo author uses `crane` as first guess - check out recent video from 3Blue1Brown link to this video
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bnycumon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Mastermind Solver”

Reminds me of the 3Blue1Brown video about Wordle, and then it's followup video. I guess that's kind of a spoiler, but still worth a watch. link to this video link
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u/exhibitleveldegreein r/compsci • Recommends

Solving Wordle using information theory
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u/velorekin r/C_Programming • Mentions

On “C - Wordle clone to play on the terminal”

Me neither. I definitely recommend the 3b1b video you suggested. It's really good. For people that don't know about it: link to this video
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sargstuffon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Λ-2D: Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Ideas from Lambda Calculus”

…included within code structure! Unicode permits implied piping rich kern font without all the tech fluff. Unicode fails because allows infinate multics and is there for k&r incomplete. But, this approach is way more dimensional/colorful than unicode/tech stuff. ?? can one's code unintentially provide a wordle problem & solution in one package ?? ( link to this video ) ?? turing complete fourier transforms link toolkit concepts: Neural networks / analog stuff : link perceptrons: link spreadsheets (: link (turing spread…
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pstuarton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles”

Interesting that SLATE is the apparent optimum opener. I found a youtube that "showed" that CRANE is mathematically optimal: link to this video The second guess (if a low hit count) fleshes out the remaining vowels. My average is 4, followed by 3.
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bschneon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to solve the "Mastermind" guessing game? (2009)”

ICYMI, 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson) has a video applying information theory to solving Wordle, which is conceptually similar to mastermind -- link to this video
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u/MVanderlooin r/compsci • Mentions

this is a pretty poor definition to gain intuition, maybe they are technically correct IDK. Information needs context to make sense, otherwise it’s just data. When you talk about encryption, compression, or communication; you typically deal with data. It’s not important to know what the data means (or what the data “informs”) because the algorithms should work for all input data. You can measure information in bits - how many 0s or 1s do you need to determine something. you need exactly 1 bit to encode the result of a coin flip. Computers also happen to work with bits because a bit is the simplest practical way to represent information. I recommend this video on a wordle solver for moti…
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