Post #3367567
2026-06-21 04:51 UTC
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
> You should call it 'entropy', for two reasons.
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> 1. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name.
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> 2. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
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> -- John von Neumann to Claude Shannon
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https://mathstodon.xyz/@pustam_egr/116786204590165587
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@alison@burningboard.net 2026-06-21 19:50
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Here's a fantastic rethink of entropy and temperature along those lines: https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/93/5/390/3344551/Temperature-as-joules-per-bit