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> Now if only we had descriptions of chemistry that were this terse. Chemistry is dealing with a lot, lot more of concepts than the study of the Game of Life.
by creshal 11y ago
> Now if only we had descriptions of chemistry that were this terse.
Chemistry is dealing with a lot, lot more of concepts than the study of the Game of Life. Brevity only works when you have few enough information that you can map it to only concise words.
(Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.)
- pervycreeper 11y agoIUPAC names are needlessly verbose and insufficiently descriptive.
- zrm 11y ago> (Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.) Information entropy and physics entropy are actually the same thing. You can measure heat capacity in bits.
- creshal 11y ago…huh. That's neat.