If you look at equation 3 of MacKay’s paper, you’ll see that he defines information in terms of frequency of an allele in a population, so you’d have to provide a whole population of randomized hard drives, and if you did so, the population would have zero information.
Rolf,
If you look at equation 3 of MacKay’s paper, you’ll see that he defines information in terms of frequency of an allele in a population, so you’d have to provide a whole population of randomized hard drives, and if you did so, the population would have zero information.