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by kgwgk 2y ago
It seems that you can “convince” LLMs of almost anything if you are insistent enough.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
I'll leave the discussion here but let me remind you that you talked (indirectly) about changes in entropy and not about absolute entropies: "if we put it into a calorimeter and measure the amount of heat we need to transfer to it
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> you'll have at least double the performance of a base m4 mini For $500 all included?
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Actually the molar heat capacity for neon, or argon, or a mixture thereof, is the same. These are monotomic ideal gases as far as your calorimeter measurements can see. If the number of particles is the same you’ll need the same heat to inc
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by kgwgk 2y ago
It will predict how other certain experiments with the combined gas will behave. That's what people mean when they say that the entropy is not an "objective" property of a physical system: that it depends on how we choose to
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> I understand that's what they mean, but this is the part that I think is either trivial or wrong. That is, depending on your choice you'll of course get different values, but it won't change anything about the system. It
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> I would say that any state that we can't measure is not a physical state. Ok, so if I understand correctly for you microstates are not physical states and it doesn't make sense to even consider that at any given moment the sy
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> an observer may have much less information than physically possible, but it can't have more information about some system than a physical limit. Still the probability represents the uncertainty of the observer. You say that "
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> the entropy of a thermodynamic system is proportional to the amount of microstates (positions, types, momentum, etc. of individual particles) that would lead to the same macrostate (temperature, volume, pressure, etc.). It doesn't
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by kgwgk 2y ago
The idea that entropy represents the uncertainty in our description of a system works perfectly well in quantum statistical mechanics (actually better than in classical statistical mechanics where the entropy of a system diverges to minus i
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> unless of course you tautologically define entropy as the amount of work the experimenter/humanity can extract from the system Do you have a different definition? (By the way the entropy is the energy that _cannot_ be extracted as
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> the 2nd law of thermodynamics doesn't depend on observers Thermodynamics entropy is not just a property of a system - it depends on how we choose to describe the system. Of course, we can define the thermodynamic entropy for a sys
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by kgwgk 2y ago
In classical thermodynamics, the entropy of a system is defined if and only if it is in a thermodynamic equilibrium.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> entropy is the ability to extract useful work from a system https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys/jaynes.pdf The amount of useful work that we can extract from any system depends - obviously and
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by kgwgk 2y ago
My bad, I thought you considered Balian’s work another misguided attempt to apply information theory concepts to thermodynamics. For the record, this is the abstract of the “Information in statistical physics” article: “We review with a tut
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Plenty of bad stuff makes its way into hackernews comments as well. Saying that “it could be wrong” doesn’t really support the “it’s wrong” claim, does it?
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by kgwgk 2y ago
That misguided attempt has resulted in full graduate courses and textbooks. Maybe one look is not all that it takes to fully assess its worthiness. https://www.amazon.com/Microphysics-Macrophysics-Application... https:&#x2
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> But entropy is also something that we can get from experimental measurements. In this case, the experimental setup does not care about microstates and macrostates, it just has properties like enthalpy, heat capacity and temperature. […
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by kgwgk 2y ago
They are related but the error function approaches -1 for large negative numbers. Φ(x) approaches 0 and so does x * Φ(x).
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by kgwgk 2y ago
People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.' There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of th
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by kgwgk 2y ago
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-v2
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Fusion is the energy of the future – and it always will be.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
The wikipedia page you mention says that "The common use of the term pension is to describe the payments a person receives upon retirement, usually under predetermined legal or contractual terms." I'm familiar with retirement
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> wherever you’ve pulled that from A dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dictiona... The wikipedia definition is strange. A pension is not a fund. A pension fund is a fund! (There is
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by kgwgk 2y ago
That seems the definition of pension. You may be thinking of something else. pension a regular income paid by a government or a financial organization to someone who no longer works, usually because of their age or health
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> Instead, they provide a fine-tuning API
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by kgwgk 2y ago
https://time.com/7173421/what-donald-trump-election-win-mean... ---- Trump spoke glowingly about crypto this year on the campaign trail, despite casting skepticism upon it for years. At the Bitcoin conference in Nashvi
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by kgwgk 2y ago
For what it's worth, some countries also offer "lottery bonds": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_bond
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Note that the diagram ends in 2002. https://sourceforge.net/p/lush/mailman/message/20287123/
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by kgwgk 2y ago
SN(1987) neural network simulator for AmigaOS (Leon Bottou, Yann LeCun) | SN1(1988) ported to SunOS. added shared-weight neural nets and graphics (LeCun) | \ | SN1.3(1989) commercial version for Unix (Neuristique) |

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