From: erayo@bilkent.edu.tr   
      
   nospam@lacrymology.com (Fogus) wrote in message news:<40324593$1   
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   > While reading Norvig's AI: A Modern Approach, 2nd Ed. (chapter 16) it   
   > is mentioned that the value of information is nonnegative... however,   
   > the reasoning behind this eludes me.  Can anyone illustrate why this   
   > is?   
      
   You might want to have a look at this pretty write up:   
      
   http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Tutorials/Info-Theory/   
      
   Regards,   
      
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   Eray Ozkural   
      
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