The second day without power

It is Tuesday night. I have never gone through a power outage lasting that long. According to the news, electricity can take a week or more to be fully restored. About one third here has no power in Tulsa. There is no traffic light in many roads, even the bigger one. I was quite a…

About method of types

Question: I was confused on the proof of Theorem 11.1.3 in yersterday’s class. And I am still confused after review the book and your notes many many times. I think that one of key points of Theorem 11.1.3 is that, under any source distribution $latex Q(x)$, the upper bound and the lower bound is true…