Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦<p>“They have proposed nothing less than a new law of <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nature" target="_blank">#nature</a>, according to which the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23complexity" target="_blank">#complexity</a> of entities in the universe increases over time with an inexorability comparable to the … inevitable rise in <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23entropy" target="_blank">#entropy</a>, a measure of disorder” <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_060825&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_060825&bxid=5bd67d5524c17c104802a904&cndid=49072736&hasha=92da85d78a132859c626d704a48daaf8&hashc=54340b2d3b1ebc399607e4dd91d3784593e18ef6368cfa0e6cfe524bc4038950&esrc=BottomStories&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.wired.com/story/why-ev...</a><br><br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_060825&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_060825&bxid=5bd67d5524c17c104802a904&cndid=49072736&hasha=92da85d78a132859c626d704a48daaf8&hashc=54340b2d3b1ebc399607e4dd91d3784593e18ef6368cfa0e6cfe524bc4038950&esrc=BottomStories&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A New Law of Nature Attempts t...</a></p>
#entropy
0 posts0 participants0 posts today
@janhoglund let's use that analogy: Is the orchestra tuning before a concert noise? Because then that noise coalesces into #consciousness. Same with #humans (indeed all #biology, including #virus and #protein), same with the #universe. Everything starts with #random #chaos that sequences into ordered #complexity and then devolves via #entropy.
https://www.europesays.com/2108649/ Understanding temperature-rain data using ID3 based concept reduction technique in FCA #ClimateSciences #concept #ConceptLattice #Data #Entropy #FormalConceptAnalysis #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #ID3Algorithm #InformationGain #MathematicsAndComputing #multidisciplinary #science
Replied in thread
@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
For today's #DailyDoodle, I traced and sketched the cover art for the #PhilipGlass album #GlassWorks while listening to the first track on repeat.
It's always been a favorite of mine, and I love how ordered his music is. I think you either love his stuff or utterly hate it, either completely enjoy listening to it, or NOPE right out of it after about a minute.
Here is the track, via invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_2vRbNehGB0
I traced the basic outline of the image via the line tool (rather, the line mode of the pen tool) in #Xournal++, and then freestyled the shading with the album art to the side, rather than traced.
For tracing, I just put the Xournal++ window above the swayimg window, and made it mostly transparent.
I think I will start using this account for my daily doodles, as it'd be nice to have them gathered together in a separate space from my usual account (@(@rl_dane@polymaths.social), and I don't take that many photos, anyway.
It's very interesting how much #entropy there is in hand-drawn sketches. Even when I was trying to save space by converting the image to monochrome (which I didn't do with this one), the file sizes for the sketches were still pretty large, and even attempting to convert to #JPEG or #WebP didn't save much space over the monochrome PNG unless I really cranked down the compression factor and turned it into a blurry mess.
It's also fascinating that the compressed XML source for the image is about the same size as the PNG. ^__^ (204KiB vs 158KiB)
It's always been a favorite of mine, and I love how ordered his music is. I think you either love his stuff or utterly hate it, either completely enjoy listening to it, or NOPE right out of it after about a minute.
Here is the track, via invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_2vRbNehGB0
I traced the basic outline of the image via the line tool (rather, the line mode of the pen tool) in #Xournal++, and then freestyled the shading with the album art to the side, rather than traced.
For tracing, I just put the Xournal++ window above the swayimg window, and made it mostly transparent.
I think I will start using this account for my daily doodles, as it'd be nice to have them gathered together in a separate space from my usual account (@(@rl_dane@polymaths.social), and I don't take that many photos, anyway.
It's very interesting how much #entropy there is in hand-drawn sketches. Even when I was trying to save space by converting the image to monochrome (which I didn't do with this one), the file sizes for the sketches were still pretty large, and even attempting to convert to #JPEG or #WebP didn't save much space over the monochrome PNG unless I really cranked down the compression factor and turned it into a blurry mess.
It's also fascinating that the compressed XML source for the image is about the same size as the PNG. ^__^ (204KiB vs 158KiB)
Replied in thread
A thought experiment.
Do you understand the difference between Entropy and Random?
Consider a shaker with 50 Green balls and 50 Red balls inside, all uniform except for color.
Is the contents inside the shaker Random? The answer is No. We know the contents. Well defined.
But, we know the contents have max Entropy.
Next, we shake one ball out of the shaker, and drop it into a box which we can not see inside of.
What have we learned? Two things. We now know that the Entropy inside the shaker has dropped. And we know we have a Random bit in the box.
At this point, we still have max Entropy in the overall system (shaker and box), but we still do not have our Random bit.
We have to Observe the contents of the box, and Record the state of the ball in the box. Red=0, Green=1 or the reverse depending upon Choice.
You now have a Random bit.
You now put the ball back in the shaker which now restores the max Entropy.
Then, you shake again, repeating the process until you have collected the states of as many Random bits as desired.
This process is not fast. Beware of fast Random.
Penn and Teller do a trick about #Entropy for their 50th anniversary.
I love it.
#PhysicsJournalClub
"Temperature as joules per bit"
by C.A. Bédard, S. Berthelette, X. Coiteux-Roy, and S. Wolf
Am. J. Phys. 93, 390 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0198820
Entropy is an important but largely misunderstood quantity. A lot of this confusion arise from its original formulation within the framework of Thermodynamics. Looking at it from a microscopic point of view (i.e. approaching it as a Statistical Mechanics problem) makes it a lot more digestible, but its ties to Thermodynamics still creates a lot of unnecessary complications.
In this paper the authors suggest that by removing the forced connection between entropy and the Kelvin temperature scale, one can rethink entropy purely in terms of information capacity of a Physical system, which takes away a lot of the difficulties usually plaguing the understanding of what entropy is actually about.
I don't think the SI will ever consider their suggestion to remove Kelvins as a fundamental unit and include bits, but this paper will be a great boon to any student banging their head against the idea of entropy for the first (or second, or third) time.
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
Quanta Magazine · Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta MagazineA new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
Today in BoneQuest History for April 5th 2010 "IF ONLY" https://bonequest.com/4161 #bonequest 
#entropy #glory_hole #physics
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
Continued thread
All of this reminds me of this great read:
en.wikipedia.orgThe Practice Effect - Wikipedia
Asheville Charlie's law of #Internet #entropy
Any platform that allows user interaction without #moderation will eventually devolve into advertising, porn, and hate speech.
is endless economic growth necessary or even possible ?
this interview offers some thought provoking ideas.
#economics #entropy #SteadyStateEconomy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/18/magazine/herman-daly-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk4.mJ_h.RidIt1M8qoP0&smid=url-share
The New York Times · This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End
#Entropy @ententropy I wrote this equation on my tennis shoe decades ago.
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a rethink of everything from rational decision-making to the limits of machines.
By Zack Savistky
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/
Replied in thread
@ezmyrelda @Structuralist By cumbersome, I think she means #Federated. My guess is she still thinks #Hierarchy will survive. #Entropy and fragmentation will win, I guarantee.
The Arrow of Time: