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There are some great videos by the author on the same subject at: http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_recognition/ http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r... They cover a lot of the same ground but in a gentler way so they're good for building intuition before working through the book fully.