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>has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another? Arieh Ben Naim think
by flubert 6y ago
>has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another?
Arieh Ben Naim thinks entropy is better described by Shannon's Measure of Information. I haven't actually read any of his books, but I've been meaning to "one of these days".
http://ariehbennaim.com/books/index.html http://ariehbennaim.com/books/index.html
- taliesinb 6y agoFrustrating, that list contains almost no usable links. Its as if he doesn’t want you to actually read or understand what he is saying.
- flubert 6y ago- Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Demystified-Second-Reduced-Common/dp/9813100125/ https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Demystified-Second-Reduced-Co...) - A Farewell to Entropy (https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Entropy-Statistical-Thermodynamics-Information/dp/9812707077 https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Entropy-Statistical-Thermody...) - Discover Entropy and the Second Law (https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Entropy-Second-Law-Thermodynamics/dp/9814299758/ https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Entropy-Second-Law-Thermodyn...) - Entropy And The Second Law: Interpretation And Misss-Interpretationsss (https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Second-Law-Interpretation-Misss-Interpretationsss/dp/981437489X/ https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Second-Law-Interpretation-Mis...) - Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe (https://www.amazon.com/Information-Entropy-Life-Universe-What/dp/9814651672/ https://www.amazon.com/Information-Entropy-Life-Universe-Wha...) - Entropy: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth (https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Truth-Whole-Nothing-But/dp/9813147679/ https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Truth-Whole-Nothing-But/dp/98...) - Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe, The: Elements Of Thermodynamics For The Curious And Intelligent (https://www.amazon.com/Four-Laws-That-Drive-Universe/dp/9813223480/ https://www.amazon.com/Four-Laws-That-Drive-Universe/dp/9813...) - TIME'S ARROW (?): The Timeless Nature of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (https://www.amazon.com/TIMES-ARROW-Timeless-Entropy-Thermodynamics/dp/1483486869/ https://www.amazon.com/TIMES-ARROW-Timeless-Entropy-Thermody...) - Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents (https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Smart-their-Curious-Parents/dp/1527532534/ https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Smart-their-Curious-Parents/d...)
- taliesinb 6y agoThanks, I do appreciate you extracting this. I did follow one or two of these originally. But I'm not going to buy an ebook on Amazon to figure out if he has anything useful to say.
- flubert 6y agoLibGen? "Shannon's Measure of Information and the Thermodynamic Entropy" https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703629 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703629