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i am quiet interested in the number: 3.6+b of google search, how did you count this number?

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there's plenty of meat left on the bone. google's craft is narrowing your search field from infinity down to 6 choices simply by sorting things through page rank and traffic.

Apple's value is narrowing the search field from 6 down to 3. much of the value is often attributed to how "willing to spend" the rich iphone owners are but it's not so much self-selection as the positive correlation that superior UI/UX provide considerable cognitive value to decision making. That value is highlighted in shannon entropy when you can toggle the log base. H=-p * log6(p)

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This is super interesting, appreciate you pointing this out!

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Thank you so much for sharing your much valued feedback. I think information theory is very underrated today despite all of this focus on tech and AI, not much appreciation is given to the basics of signal theory and what it means to have information from data. One of the reasons why it’s not well studied is because it’s not a separate field or major. It’s used in compsci and math and electrical engineering but only as a test question for exams.

I try to cover the body of knowledge for adult learners as an intro with my LinkedIn articles but it’s difficult to gain traction. Any tips on improving my content making/marketing?

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I don't know that I have any super valuable tips. Substack is great, I think posting consistently on twitter and substack is the first step. Honestly for me it's just been a huge grind, I'm around 1200 subscribers and started in february - have gotten lucky with some posts that ended up getting lots of views.

One of the things I've done which may work is just monitor topics on twitter, and whenever anyone is discussing things that are relevant to something I've written I respond with a link to what I've written and some snippets I've cut out into an image. That's helped for sure.

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