“Darwin’s theory of #evolution by #naturalselection plays the role of #semantic #darkmatter in relation to the second law of #thermodynamics, reconciling the local, and perhaps even transiently global, increase in functional order in the face of #entropy increase” open.substack.com/pub/sfiscien...
The Problem of Translation & S...
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My old physics prof always said "time is what you measure with a clock". Still aging well ⏳
Extremophile molds: The hidden threat eating away at museum treasures (Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-extremophile-molds-are-destroying-museum-artifacts/
My favorite line:
> Letting go of the shame is the only way we can learn about these molds
Holds true across the board in this field: physical or digital.
#Digipres #Archives #GLAM #Entropy #Conservation #CollectionCare
🚨 NEW: #Crypto startup #Entropy is shutting down and returning funds to investors after failing to find product-market fit.
🚀 Giới thiệu Entropy Stability Engine (ESE): công cụ đo entropy thời gian thực để phát hiện vòng lặp xác定 trong LLM. ✅ Siêu nhẹ, chạy trên ZTE Blade A71 (3 GB RAM) via Pydroid 3. ✅ Giám sát cửa sổ token (default 5), cảnh báo khi entropy giảm < ngưỡng, đưa ra biện pháp chèn nhiễu ngẫu nhiên. 🌱 Giúp giảm lãng phí GPU, tiết kiệm chi phí token & năng lượng, phù hợp cho edge‑computing. #LLM #AI #Entropy #GreenAI #EdgeComputing #CôngNghệ #AI #MãNguồn #HiệuSuất #TiếtKiệm
WITHIN OBLIVION - ENTROPY [OFFICIAL EP STREAM] (2025) SW EXCLUSIVE
Clarity doesn’t always come from tightening the mind.
Sometimes it arrives when familiar structures soften.
Neuroscience calls this increased brain #entropy —
a temporary loosening that allows new #meaning #emotion and perspective to emerge.
Not chaos.
Not collapse.
#flexibility
Insight lives at the boundary between structure and openness.
And integration is what turns that openness into wisdom.
It took a while, but I'm finally back to writing my blog 😎
The first installment for 2026 is an easy introduction to calculating information #entropy for optical spectra (or for any signal, really).
In my blog, I focus on #data analysis (#chemometrics, machine learning) applied to optical and near-infrared #spectroscopy Smoothing, or denoising, is one of the most common steps to work with spectroscopy data, and information entropy can be used as a criterion to guide the smoothing process.
Better still, the entropy of the derivative of a signal can help with that, because it accounts for the shape of the signal more naturally.
Read more at https://nirpyresearch.com/information-entropy-spectra/
Lego Smart Play. Next up, the Replicator Con; non-renewables don’t produce more non-renewables or renewables. Turning Earth into technological waste just to defeat human rights couldn’t be more absurd! The road map built on non-renewables only leads to Armageddon. #Entropy #DRDI #TheFederation #EmpireIsBoring… #WW3
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”*…
A road trip in Sausalito, California during wildfire season, September 2020. Photo by Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty ImagesReality is tough. Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed.
In a way that challenges lots of our deeply-seated conceptions (your correspondent’s, anyway), philosopher (and self-proclaimed pessimist) Drew Dalton invokes the laws of thermodynamics to argue that it is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe…
Reality is not what you think it is. It is not the foundation of our joyful flourishing. It is not an eternally renewing resource, nor something that would, were it not for our excessive intervention and reckless consumption, continue to harmoniously expand into the future. The truth is that reality is not nearly so benevolent. Like everything else that exists – stars, microbes, oil, dolphins, shadows, dust and cities – we are nothing more than cups destined to shatter endlessly through time until there is nothing left to break. This, according to the conclusions of scientists over the past two centuries, is the quiet horror that structures existence itself.
We might think this realisation belongs to the past – a closed chapter of 19th-century science – but we are still living through the consequences of the thermodynamic revolution. Just as the full metaphysical implications of the Copernican revolution took centuries to unfold, we have yet to fully grasp the philosophical and existential consequences of entropic decay. We have yet to conceive of reality as it truly is. Instead, philosophers cling to an ancient idea of the Universe in which everything keeps growing and flourishing. According to this view, existence is good. Reality is good.
But what would our metaphysics and ethics look like if we learned that reality was against us?…
Read on for his provocative argument that philosphers must grapple with the meaning of thermodynamics: “Reality is evil,” from @dmdalton.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
Dalton further explores these ideas in his book The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism (2023)
* Philip K. Dick
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As we wrestle with reality, we might send somewhat sunnier birthday greetings to Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA; he was born on this date in 1942. A theoretical physicist and cosmologist, he is probably best known in his professional circles for his work with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, for his theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation (now called Hawking radiation), and for his support of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
But Hawking is more broadly known as a popularizer of science. His A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for over four years (a record-breaking 237 weeks), and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
“We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
#ABriefHistoryOfTime #blackHoles #Cosmology #entropy #evil #history #humor #lawsOfThermodynamics #philosophy #Physics #reality #Science #StephenHawking #thermodynamics
Tôi vừa phát hành Steer v0.4, công cụ lọc phản hồi AI dựa trên Shannon Entropy. Nếu entropy < 3.5, câu trả lời bị chặn và tạo dữ liệu contrastive cho DPO. Mã nguồn mở, triển khai như Service Mesh để ngăn sycophancy ngay từ đầu. Ai đã dùng entropy filter trong production? #AI #MachineLearning #Entropy #OpenSource #AIVietnam #Lập_trình
Time is not the cage of life. It is the pulse that lets life be felt. #Existence #Time #Awareness #BodyWisdom #Physiology #LifeCycle #Presence #Mindfulness #LocalAwareness #Consciousness #NonLocal #Stillness #Science #Entropy #Reality #Meaning #Growth #HumanTruth
https://medium.com/@skmohindroo9/existence-time-and-the-silent-thread-between-them-7a650aa4bef7
Time is not the cage of life. It is the pulse that lets life be felt. #Existence #Time #Awareness #BodyWisdom #Physiology #LifeCycle #Presence #Mindfulness #LocalAwareness #Consciousness #NonLocal #Stillness #Science #Entropy #Reality #Meaning #Growth #HumanTruth
https://medium.com/@skmohindroo9/existence-time-and-the-silent-thread-between-them-7a650aa4bef7
Time is not the cage of life. It is the pulse that lets life be felt. #Existence #Time #Awareness #BodyWisdom #Physiology #LifeCycle #Presence #Mindfulness #LocalAwareness #Consciousness #NonLocal #Stillness #Science #Entropy #Reality #Meaning #Growth #HumanTruth
https://medium.com/@skmohindroo9/existence-time-and-the-silent-thread-between-them-7a650aa4bef7
The #Aeon piece linked to below argues that we still haven’t really come to grips with the implications of #entropy. I wrote earlier this year about a book that tries to do that in the context of #economics. Rightly or wrongly, I also dragged in #Trump. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/09/entr...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3lxmkfhzfn22a
Entropy Economics and Trump's ...
Entropy generally refers to disorder or uncertainty. Greater entropy means greater uncertainty.
Reading the recent TIME article titled “2026 Will Mark a New World Disorder” [1] led me to think that, in a metaphorical sense, geopolitical entropy i.e. the growing tendency toward disorder, fragmentation, and unpredictability in international relations is on the rise. Global power structures have shifted from relatively stable and centralized systems to ones that are more fragmented and less predictable.
Unlike physical entropy in isolated systems, geopolitical entropy is not necessarily irreversible. Human actions, through diplomacy, new institutions, or alliances, can restore order and reduce disorder. Yet, current trends such as multipolarity, declining hegemony, and the spread of emerging threats suggest that geopolitical entropy will keep increasing unless strong corrective measures are taken.
🌠 The law of thermodynamics states that energy spontaneously tends to disperse. Just like how your hot coffee cools down! #Thermodynamics #Entropy
Nhà khoa học vừa công bố LOGOS-ZERO - framework mới thay thế RLHF truyền thống bằng hàm lỗi nền vật lý nhiệt động. Mục tiêu: làm cho các hallucinations và lỗi logic trở nên "tốn năng lượng" trong suy luận AI. Bài nghiên cứu cũng đề cập hiện tượng lỗi L.A.D. (Lỗi ẩn do phức tạp ngữ nghĩa) trong các mô hình hàng đầu hiện nay. Tìm kiếm ý kiến về khả thi toán học của hàm phạt entrôpia trong nhân tùy chỉnh.
#AIAlignment #LOGOSZERO #NhiệtĐộngLựcHọc #Haliongan #LAD #ENTROPY #DeepLearning #AIResearch
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