Sunday, 13 December 2009

Text entropy

One of these texts has higher entropy than the other.
Which one is it? Do you still think 'entropy' stands for 'disorder'? Is the text of Shakespeare less "ordered" than the arbitrary monkey writings? If you think so, my friend, you need professional care.
The ideal chrystal has the least entropy, and "life" has much higher. That is the truth, even if you read otherwise on the web. 'Entropy' is not - and will never be - 'disorder'. It does not matter how you define this dubious term.

/Nicholas Bourbaki
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Respecting the copy rights of Georgia State University, I will not tell you, what they say about entropy, but it is wrong. Honestly I don't think they will admit being wrong, if I write to them.

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