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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?

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  • From a cursory glance it seems at least quite close to the definition of a bit in relation to entropy, also known as a shannon.

    Nevertheless, the term bits of information or simply bits is more often heard, even in the fields of information and communication theory, rather than shannons; just saying bits can therefore be ambiguous. Using the unit shannon is an explicit reference to a quantity of information content, information entropy or channel capacity, and is not restricted to binary data, whereas bits can as well refer to the number of binary symbols involved, as is the term used in fields such as data processing. —Wikipedia article for shannons





  • The article mentions it… TL;DR: War on Drugs

    Hospital drug testing of pregnant women, which began in the 1980s and spread rapidly during the opioid epidemic, was intended in part to help identify babies who might experience withdrawal symptoms and need extra medical care. Federal law requires hospitals to alert child welfare agencies anytime such babies are born. But a previous investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal found that the relatively inexpensive, pee-in-a-cup tests favored by many hospitals are highly susceptible to false positives, errors and misinterpretation — and many hospitals have failed to put in place safeguards that would protect patients from being reported over faulty test results.