#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: “#Enchantment of #Entropy”
He assumes that we need a new basic #understanding of the #phenomenon of entropy. In Arieh's view, entropy, which originally stems from the 2nd #main #theorem of #thermodynamics, has been misused and incorrectly transferred as a #concept to other areas of #physics, #biology and everyday #life.
Read more at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/02/22/entzauberung-der-entropie/
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677232
Life is a fight against entropy. When in doubt, organize something. You'll feel more alive.
-- Tristan Harward (@trisweb)
#Wisdom #Quotes #TristanHarward #Entropy #Life #Organization
#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: “Demystifying #Entropy”
Information about the person and his scientific work
In another installment of our “Zoomposium series” on the topic of #physics and its #limits, my colleague Axel Stöcker from the “Blog der großen Fragen” and I had the opportunity to interview the renowned Israeli physical chemist Prof. Dr. Arieh Ben-Naim on the exciting topic of “Demystifying Entropy”.
Arieh, who was born on July 11, 1934, held a chair in #Physical #Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over 40 years, with his main field of research being the theory of the #structure of #water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He was mainly concerned with theoretical and experimental aspects of the general theory of #liquids and #solutions. In recent years, he has advocated the use of #information theory to better understand and advance #statistical #mechanics and #thermodynamics.
In this context, he has also worked intensively on the question of the nature and underlying principle of the phenomenon of #entropy, which he has published in numerous often cited but also controversially discussed popular science books.
The basic tenor of all his publications and lectures is that we need a new basic understanding of the phenomenon of entropy. In Arieh's view, entropy, which originally stems from the laws of #thermodynamics and in particular the 2nd law, has been misused and incorrectly transferred as a #concept to other areas of #physics, #biology and everyday #life.
In this respect, it was finally time (bon mot) to ask the author himself about his ground-breaking theses, which cast a different light on the #phenomenon of entropy or perhaps better said, bring entropy back to its place of origin.
The interview we conducted with him is in English.
Find out more at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/02/22/entzauberung-der-entropie/
Any #math nerds who can explain to me how to calculate #entropy for #passwords and #passphrases? Or point me to a resource that explains it?
I enjoy learning those #programming languages with high #entropy (high surprise factor or high information content). Personally, LISP, APL, Forth, Prolog, Erlang, and Haskell surprised me the most, upon first encounter.
My computer is dying. Heat problem. A fan is failing.
The part is discontinued. the laptop is only 5 years old. Having trouble finding the exact part# for the fan assembly even on like Ebay and Amazon and Alibaba. Can't afford new computer. Need new glasses too. Can't afford them either. can't afford my insurance premiums either. might just cash in my IRA. It's tanking with the stock market anyway.
It struck me this morning that money is like energy, and like energy you can inject more of it into a system to lower the total entropy of the system, but without it the entropy just keeps increasing. Conversely as DOG(e)(gy) sucks money out of the US system, the entropy is increasing at a really fast rate, and goddess knows where the chaos will lead us.
anyway. this text is from my Patreon. I usually post art i'm working on, not just thoughts about the sorry state off my finances. but anyway if you want to join please do. there's a free option, even.
How do you people have the will to keep your computers organized? I used to put different things in order in its own folder. Since couple of years the chaos took over and I dump everything in Downloads since. That folder is now 200+ gb mainly various document. I guess #entropy won. 
All of this reminds me of this great read:
Research suggests the prevalence of spirals in natural structures may be intrinsically connected to entropy. This insight provides a deeper understanding of how energy distribution and structural efficiency manifest in the universe.
#spirals #entropy #nature #physics
phys.org/news/2025-03...
Why does nature love spirals? ...
This week's penguin: That's the one with the entropy.
http://pengcognito.com/index.php?id=catentropy
#penguins #pengcognito #cats #entropy #cartoon #SecondLawOfThermodynamics
I was just sweeping the house, and meditating on how correct Erwin #Schrödinger was about the efficiency of life increasing #entropy. And how the #SecondLawOfThermodynamics might suggest life appears everywhere possible, in order to accelerate this.
All over the universe, there are organisms sweeping up dust from their spaceships, and wondering why their offspring never get out of their pods and pick up a broom to help.
'Deep Out-of-Distribution Uncertainty Quantification via Weight Entropy Maximization', by Antoine de Mathelin, François Deheeger, Mathilde Mougeot, Nicolas Vayatis.
http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/23-1359.html
#regularization #entropy #gaussian
