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I always assumed it was Maxwell's demon [1]. The little hypothetical creature that exists to manage the state of a system to maintain order is a fitting descrip

I always assumed it was Maxwell's demon [1]. The little hypothetical creature that exists to manage the state of a system to maintain order is a fitting description. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon

bee_rider 5y ago
Both of the popular stackoverflow answers seem to agree, at least to some degree. Which makes a lot of sense to me -- Maxwell's daemon lives right in the physics/information theory zone, and close enough to signal theory stuff that, while it isn't required reading, any number of engineering students might bump into it.