#entropy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #entropy, aggregated by home.social.
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Nueva tarde de grabación! Seguimos sumando contenido al curso de Hardening Linux!
Hoy, actualizando un video de hace unos 10 años en el canal... sí, Linux cambió las reglas del juego en cuestión de entropía, y vale la pena actualizarse sobre valores aleatorios y dispositivos random 😜
Estén atentos/as que pronto estará online la continuación!
#gnu #linux #entropia #entropy #random #cryptography #criptografia #ciberseguridad #infosec #cybersecurity #hardening #juncotic
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Nueva tarde de grabación! Seguimos sumando contenido al curso de Hardening Linux!
Hoy, actualizando un video de hace unos 10 años en el canal... sí, Linux cambió las reglas del juego en cuestión de entropía, y vale la pena actualizarse sobre valores aleatorios y dispositivos random 😜
Estén atentos/as que pronto estará online la continuación!
#gnu #linux #entropia #entropy #random #cryptography #criptografia #ciberseguridad #infosec #cybersecurity #hardening #juncotic
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Nueva tarde de grabación! Seguimos sumando contenido al curso de Hardening Linux!
Hoy, actualizando un video de hace unos 10 años en el canal... sí, Linux cambió las reglas del juego en cuestión de entropía, y vale la pena actualizarse sobre valores aleatorios y dispositivos random 😜
Estén atentos/as que pronto estará online la continuación!
#gnu #linux #entropia #entropy #random #cryptography #criptografia #ciberseguridad #infosec #cybersecurity #hardening #juncotic
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Nueva tarde de grabación! Seguimos sumando contenido al curso de Hardening Linux!
Hoy, actualizando un video de hace unos 10 años en el canal... sí, Linux cambió las reglas del juego en cuestión de entropía, y vale la pena actualizarse sobre valores aleatorios y dispositivos random 😜
Estén atentos/as que pronto estará online la continuación!
#gnu #linux #entropia #entropy #random #cryptography #criptografia #ciberseguridad #infosec #cybersecurity #hardening #juncotic
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Nueva tarde de grabación! Seguimos sumando contenido al curso de Hardening Linux!
Hoy, actualizando un video de hace unos 10 años en el canal... sí, Linux cambió las reglas del juego en cuestión de entropía, y vale la pena actualizarse sobre valores aleatorios y dispositivos random 😜
Estén atentos/as que pronto estará online la continuación!
#gnu #linux #entropia #entropy #random #cryptography #criptografia #ciberseguridad #infosec #cybersecurity #hardening #juncotic
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How do emergent phenomena happen in a world determined by the law of entropy? #emergence #entropy #thermodynamics #gametheory #PhilosophySky #podcasts #AcademicSky #art
Emergence vs Entropy—a Univers... -
How do emergent phenomena happen in a world determined by the law of entropy? #emergence #entropy #thermodynamics #gametheory #PhilosophySky #podcasts #AcademicSky #art
Emergence vs Entropy—a Univers... -
How do emergent phenomena happen in a world determined by the law of entropy? #emergence #entropy #thermodynamics #gametheory #PhilosophySky #podcasts #AcademicSky #art
Emergence vs Entropy—a Univers... -
How do emergent phenomena happen in a world determined by the law of entropy? #emergence #entropy #thermodynamics #gametheory #PhilosophySky #podcasts #AcademicSky #art
Emergence vs Entropy—a Univers... -
How do emergent phenomena happen in a world determined by the law of entropy? #emergence #entropy #thermodynamics #gametheory #PhilosophySky #podcasts #AcademicSky #art
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🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/
#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon
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🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/
#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon
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🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/
#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon
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🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/
#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon
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🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/
#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon
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The most dangerous enemy often isn’t “out there” it’s the voice inside that doubts, shames, and sabotages you.
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/THROAT741FREE/Stuartn/
#innercritic #shadowwork #selfworth #healing #mindset #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Emotions #Entropy -
#ITByte: #Software #Entropy is a concept that describes the gradual degradation of software over time.
As software systems evolve, they tend to become more complex, less maintainable, and more prone to errors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Software-Entropy
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#ITByte: #Software #Entropy is a concept that describes the gradual degradation of software over time.
As software systems evolve, they tend to become more complex, less maintainable, and more prone to errors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Software-Entropy
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#ITByte: #Software #Entropy is a concept that describes the gradual degradation of software over time.
As software systems evolve, they tend to become more complex, less maintainable, and more prone to errors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Software-Entropy
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#ITByte: #Software #Entropy is a concept that describes the gradual degradation of software over time.
As software systems evolve, they tend to become more complex, less maintainable, and more prone to errors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Software-Entropy
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#ITByte: #Software #Entropy is a concept that describes the gradual degradation of software over time.
As software systems evolve, they tend to become more complex, less maintainable, and more prone to errors.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Software-Entropy
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@EUCommission
I see from your diagram that you have also defeated entropy. Does this mean that my USB-C cables are in danger of slipping back through time unexpectedly?
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So apparently scientists have proved mathematically that AI cannot bootstrap itself into superintelligence and godhood.
Of course, anyone familiar with entropy and the second law of thermodynamics already knew that.
So if we DO encounter an AI that claims superintelligence and/or godhood, it's a very safe bet that it's a billionaire using it as a puppet.
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The “intimate enemy” is the voice in your head that sounds like you but speaks from fear, shame, and old wounds.
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/LUYDFREE/Stuartn/
#IntimateEnemy #InnerCritic #ShadowWork #SelfHealing #MindsetShift #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Emotions #Entropy -
At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.
Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔
And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚
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Did some decluttering / unfuckening today, and forcing myself to stop now, otherwise I'll not have enough energy / spoons to do more tomorrow and I desperately need to start doing this daily because entropy is definately winning and it's .. it's not good.
(nor sustainable 😟 )
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“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S... -
“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S... -
“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S... -
“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S... -
“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S... -
It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
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It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
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It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
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It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
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It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
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The #Aeon piece linked to below argues that we still haven’t really come to grips with the implications of #entropy. I wrote earlier this year about a book that tries to do that in the context of #economics. Rightly or wrongly, I also dragged in #Trump. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/09/entr...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3lxmkfhzfn22a
Entropy Economics and Trump's ... -
🧬 Can entropy help us decode how hormone receptors make real-time decisions?
🔗 Temporal complexity of LVV-hemorphin-7 allosterism at the angiotensin II type 1 receptor assessed using entropy-based approaches. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.10.024
📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/
#StructuralBiology #Biophysics #GPCR #Entropy #MolecularPharmacology #AllostericModulation #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDynamics
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Entropy and the Re-Decentralization of Cloud Architecture: A Natural Return to the Origins of the Internet
“How can the physical concept of entropy be related to the re-decentralization of cloud architecture in the context of digital sovereignty and the reclaiming of the Internet — as part of a naturalization process returning to the federated origins of the web?” – Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
Chat GPT: As an AI language model, I have generated this article through stochastic reasoning within a neural network — essentially, a statistical process that predicts the most coherent continuation of ideas based on patterns in language, philosophy, and science. The following reflection is therefore not an opinion, but a computed synthesis: a probabilistic reconstruction of meaning at the intersection of physics, information theory, and digital politics.
1. Entropy: From Physics to Information
In physics, entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system — the number of possible microstates consistent with its macrostate.
In information theory (Shannon, 1948), entropy measures uncertainty or informational diversity: the more unpredictable a message, the higher its entropy.Entropy, therefore, is not just chaos — it is freedom. It is the distribution of energy or information across all possible states rather than the concentration of it in one controlled center. Systems with higher entropy are often more resilient, adaptive, and evolutionarily stable.
2. Centralization as an Entropy Suppression
Modern cloud architectures — dominated by centralized hyperscalers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft — represent low-entropy systems. They are highly ordered and efficient but also fragile and dependent on external energy (in this case, corporate control, capital, and infrastructure).
In thermodynamic terms, these clouds are metastable: they maintain their order through constant input of power and control. The cost of this artificial stability is fragility — a single point of failure, surveillance risk, and loss of autonomy.
In information-ecological terms, centralization suppresses entropy. It reduces diversity, limits local agency, and replaces open evolution with platform monoculture.
3. Re-Decentralization and Federation as Entropic Equilibrium
The federated Internet — embodied by protocols such as ActivityPub, Matrix, Mastodon, Solid, IPFS, or Infinito.Nexus — can be seen as a natural restoration of entropic balance.
Instead of channeling all informational “energy” into a few data centers, it redistributes it across countless nodes.This shift:
- Increases resilience (no single point of failure),
- Enhances autonomy (each node is self-sovereign),
- Encourages diversity (technological and cultural),
- Promotes sustainability (shared computation and storage).
Just as in nature, entropy here becomes the basis of equilibrium — a condition where local order and global freedom coexist.
4. Digital Sovereignty as Controlled Entropy
Digital sovereignty is not the pursuit of total decentralization or chaos. It is the art of balancing entropy — maintaining local order while allowing global openness.
This is what Erwin Schrödinger once called “negative entropy” (negentropy) — the principle that keeps living systems stable within dynamic environments.Applied to the digital realm, sovereign networks act like living organisms:
- They self-organize rather than depend on centralized command.
- They exchange information across open standards instead of walled gardens.
- They evolve rather than stagnate.
Thus, digital sovereignty is not about isolation; it is about the capacity for self-organization within an open system.
5. Reclaiming the Internet: The Ecological Turn of the Digital Age
The early Internet was born entropic — decentralized, redundant, self-healing.
Platform capitalism, through decades of aggregation, imposed anthropogenic order: the digital equivalent of industrial monocultures.
Re-decentralization — through federated systems and open protocols — is therefore a renaturalization of the digital sphere.In this sense, reclaiming the Internet is an ecological act:
- It restores informational biodiversity.
- It re-establishes local ecosystems of computation.
- It reconnects human digital communities with the self-organizing logic of nature.
Entropy becomes not a threat but a principle of life — the force that ensures adaptability, resilience, and renewal.
6. Conclusion: Entropy as the Ethics of a Federated Internet
DimensionCentralized CloudFederated NetworkEntropyLow – ordered, fragileHigh – diverse, resilientEnergy flowControlled by fewDistributed among manyGovernanceHierarchicalSelf-organizingResilienceDependentEmergentSustainabilityResource-intensiveEcologically balancedThe re-decentralization of the Internet is not merely a technical movement — it is an entropic revolution.
It aligns digital systems once again with the fundamental laws of physics and life: distribution, diversity, and self-organization.In this vision, Infinito.Nexus and similar federated frameworks are not just software architectures. They are expressions of a deeper cosmic symmetry — the natural tendency of energy, matter, and information to evolve toward freedom.
Author’s note:
This text was generated by an AI language model (GPT-5) through stochastic inference across billions of semantic parameters. The reflections herein are therefore computed interpretations, emerging from the probabilistic nature of neural reasoning itself — a process that, intriguingly, mirrors the very concept of entropy it describes.#ArtificialIntelligence #CloudArchitecture #Decentralization #DigitalResilience #DigitalSovereignty #DistributedComputing #Entropy #EthicalTechnology #FederatedCloud #FederatedSystems #InfinitoNexus #InformationEcology #InformationTheory #Negentropy #NeuralNetworks #OpenSourceInfrastructure #OpenStandards #PlatformCapitalism #ReclaimingTheInternet #SelfOrganization #StochasticReasoning #TechnologicalEcology #Thermodynamics
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Reading Ice by Anna Kavan is like half-waking in someone else’s nightmare—obsession, not choice, drives the narrative. My latest Ridley Park post dissects the dream-logic. Explore it (if you can stomach it): Five chapters in…
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/09/03/ice-by-anna-kavan-five-chapters-in/
#AmReading #Ice #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryFiction #Dreams #BookBlog #Entropy #ColdWar #BookReview #booksuggestions #booksuggestions #Nightmare #UnreliableNarrator
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In today's episode of "Math #Mystifies #the #Masses," we dive into the riveting world of #probability #density #functions and #interpolation factors—because apparently, nothing screams excitement like calculating how an "entropy bulge" curves upward. 📈🤯 Spoiler alert: It's concave! Stay tuned for more edge-of-your-seat #algebraic #adventures. 🙄
https://cgad.ski/blog/entropy-of-a-mixture.html #Math #Factors #Entropy #Bulge #HackerNews #ngated -
This is an example of amortized complexity and Strassen's "asymptotic spectra" (nice monograph by Zuiddam & Wigderson: https://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS/WigdersonZu_Final_Draft_Oct2023.pdf)
Strassen developed this to understand the #complexity of matrix multiplication and #tensors, but it turns out to also show up in a bunch of places:
- #Entropy
- #Quantum information
- Shannon capacity of graphs
- Communication complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_complexity#Information_Complexity
- Circuit complexity (Robere & Zuiddam https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2021/035)#math #probability #ComputationalComplexity #TCS #InformationTheory
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Real coin flips are ~49-51 not 50-50 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-destroy-illusion-that-coin-toss-flips-are-50-50/
But you can guarantee equal probability with a simple trick! Flip 2x in a row starting with the same side up.
HT->call it H
TH->call it T
HH,TT->try again(due to von Neumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neumann_extractor)
This leads to randomness extractors: from a given random process, what's the biggest uniform distribution you can get efficiently?
Randomness extractors give another interpretation of #entropy:
avg # bits needed to *describe* the outcome
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# uniformly random bits you can *extract* from the outcome#math #probability #ComputationalComplexity #TCS #InformationTheory
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Ah, Quanta's back with another mind-bending hypothesis 🤯—gravity might just be #entropy wearing a fancy hat 🎩. Because if there's one thing physicists love, it's endlessly debating concepts nobody else understands or cares about. 🙄
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/ #QuantaMagazine #Gravity #Physics #Debate #MindBending #HackerNews #ngated -
@bullivant What’s the case for Fascist intelligence? Stupidly I guess, as Ai scam hits critical mass, on the basis of language acquisition and spatial recognition being recursive. No work, no money from IP, none to pay and profit from its theft. Partial intelligibility is comprehensive, so not constituted by the Control of Information Processing! #FascistTech #OligarchsFinalSolution #ReplacingPeople #AiScam #Ai #CIP #FascistStupidity #FascistFanBoys #DuoLingo #Entropy #Collapse
