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> like a runaway growth success thing. is this because employee growth is easily verifiable? Put another way, don't companies ask for accounting statements etc to figure out if the…

thanks for the reply but I don't think I understood what you said in the context of my question. I'm stuck on why we care about surprisal as `log 1/p`.

qq, can you explain a few noob thoughts. Why is surprisal defined as `log (1/p(X=x)`? I'm lacking the intuition for 1. why did someone think to use 1/p? 2. why do we have a log ter…