Second LawStephen Wolfram
Second Law
by Stephen Wolfram · first published 2023
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You should read Stephen Wolfram, The Second Law. He has a useful perspective on what can be predicted (computed) by an observer and what can't, it is more helpful than thinking about things in terms of compression. His views on physics-in-the-world…
on “Ask HN: Is Everything Data Compression?” ↗Half a year after that talk Wolfram appeared on a popular podcast [1] to discuss his book on the Second Law of Thermodynamics [2]. That discussion contained the best one-sentence description of entropy I've ever heard: > Entropy is the logarithm of the number of states that are consistent with what you know…
on “What Is Entropy?” ↗