ctafur

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   by ctafur 2y ago

   My first contact with entropy was in chemistry and thermodynamics and I didn't get it. Actually I didn't get anything from engineering thermodynamics books such as Çengel and so. You must go to statistical mechanics or information
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   by ctafur 2y ago

   The way I understand it is with an analogy to probability. To me, events are to microscopic states like random variable is to entropy.
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   by ctafur 3y ago

   I just find another alternative to Git called Grace. It's made by a Microsoft employee with F#.
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   by ctafur 3y ago

   According to entropy, and thermodynamics in general, I can't recommend enough the notes [0] of prof. Zhigang Suo of Harvard. It's a new way of presenting thermodynamics and I finally get it... contrary to when I took a thermo cour
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   by ctafur 4y ago

   Sorry, don't count with me. I don't like using on my code symbols I don't have on my keyboard. I still prefer LaTeX for math notation. For normal text my new hope is Djot, a lighweight markup language by the creator of Pandoc
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   by ctafur 5y ago

   Also with gold. Some news headlines: "Turkey tightens regulation of jewellers after demand for gold soars", "Turkey's Erdogan repeats call for citizens to convert forex, gold holdings".
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   by ctafur 8y ago

   "Revolutionary Wealth", by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.