| ▲ | What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?(quomodocumque.wordpress.com) | |
| 26 points by sebg 5 days ago | 2 comments | ||
| ▲ | kylehotchkiss 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
In John C. Baez "What is Entropy?" (A 122 page PDF best suited for reading on airplanes without wifi and in flight entertainment), he states: > It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn. The entropy of a random integer being 1 makes intrinsic sense to me, given I didn't spend years in theoretical math classes | ||
| ▲ | buredoranna 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
one of my favorites | ||