#shannonentropy — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧩🧠 At #Binghamton University, a team led by Assistant Professor Congyu Wu turned a class project into a published #paper cracking #Wordle.
They used Shannon entropy – a #math formula that measures uncertainty – to pick guesses that get the most information from each turn. In simulations, their method solved 99% of #puzzles.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-06-math-wordle.html
#newyork #shannonentropy #gaming #algorithms #research #engineering #education
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧩🧠 At #Binghamton University, a team led by Assistant Professor Congyu Wu turned a class project into a published #paper cracking #Wordle.
They used Shannon entropy – a #math formula that measures uncertainty – to pick guesses that get the most information from each turn. In simulations, their method solved 99% of #puzzles.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-06-math-wordle.html
#newyork #shannonentropy #gaming #algorithms #research #engineering #education
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@mushroom thanks. Would have been nice to add a table of #ShannonEntropy numbers and other mammals as they did for word length and human languages. Interesting stuff
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@woo -- #Entropy: I try to avoid to use the terms "#order" and "#disorder".
#SocialSciences: The the measures developped by #AnthonyBarnesAtkinson, #SergeChristopheKolm and #HenriTheil are based on the #ShannonEntropy.
#Thermodynamics: I recommend "Entropy-Demystified, the Second Law of Thermodynamics Reduced to Plain Common Sense" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2007) by #AriehBenNaim (http://www.ariehbennaim.com). The important chapters 1 and 8 are available on-line: http://www.ariehbennaim.com/demo-images/B7-Ch1-8-Pref-.pdf.
