Algorithms Exercise 3

Imports



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%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np



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from IPython.html.widgets import interact









    



:0: FutureWarning: IPython widgets are experimental and may change in the future.

Character counting and entropy

Write a function char_probs that takes a string and computes the probabilities of each character in the string:

First do a character count and store the result in a dictionary.
Then divide each character counts by the total number of character to compute the normalized probabilties.
Return the dictionary of characters (keys) and probabilities (values).



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def char_probs(s):
    """Find the probabilities of the unique characters in the string s.
    
    Parameters
    ----------
    s : str
        A string of characters.
    
    Returns
    -------
    probs : dict
        A dictionary whose keys are the unique characters in s and whose values
        are the probabilities of those characters.
    """
    # YOUR CODE HERE
    
text='sssaat'
l=len(text)
ref={}
i=1
x=text[0]
ref[x]=i

if text[1] == x:
    ref['s']=i+1
print(text[1])
print(ref[x])
"""
find first character in word at to list
go to next charcter if its in your dictionary increment that value
if not in dictionary add to dicctionary
find length of word
divide value(number of occurances found above) by total length of word to find percentage
replace the value with the percentage
"""

s
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test1 = char_probs('aaaa')
assert np.allclose(test1['a'], 1.0)
test2 = char_probs('aabb')
assert np.allclose(test2['a'], 0.5)
assert np.allclose(test2['b'], 0.5)
test3 = char_probs('abcd')
assert np.allclose(test3['a'], 0.25)
assert np.allclose(test3['b'], 0.25)
assert np.allclose(test3['c'], 0.25)
assert np.allclose(test3['d'], 0.25)

The entropy is a quantiative measure of the disorder of a probability distribution. It is used extensively in Physics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science and Information Science. Given a set of probabilities $P_i$, the entropy is defined as:

$$H = - \Sigma_i P_i \log_2(P_i)$$

In this expression $\log_2$ is the base 2 log (np.log2), which is commonly used in information science. In Physics the natural log is often used in the definition of entropy.

Write a funtion entropy that computes the entropy of a probability distribution. The probability distribution will be passed as a Python dict: the values in the dict will be the probabilities.

To compute the entropy, you should:

First convert the values (probabilities) of the dict to a Numpy array of probabilities.
Then use other Numpy functions (np.log2, etc.) to compute the entropy.
Don't use any for or while loops in your code.



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def entropy(d):
    """Compute the entropy of a dict d whose values are probabilities."""
    # YOUR CODE HERE
    raise NotImplementedError()



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assert np.allclose(entropy({'a': 0.5, 'b': 0.5}), 1.0)
assert np.allclose(entropy({'a': 1.0}), 0.0)

Use IPython's interact function to create a user interface that allows you to type a string into a text box and see the entropy of the character probabilities of the string.



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# YOUR CODE HERE
raise NotImplementedError()



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assert True # use this for grading the pi digits histogram