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Factorial code

To create factorial codes, Horace Barlow and co-workers suggested to minimize the sum of the bit entropies of the code components of binary codes (1989).

Horace Barlow

This was a precursor to the work of Hubel and Wiesel on visual receptive fields in the visual cortex.

Sir Thomas Barlow, 3rd Baronet

His younger brother was the visual neuroscientist Horace Barlow.

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