So: the laws of physics say entropy can only increase, and today's entropy is still very low.
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The more order there is, the lower the entropy; the greater the disorder, the higher the entropy.
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We typically think entropy means disorder, and so a disordered structure would have more entropy than an ordered structure.
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People normally understand the law of increasing entropy as the tendency of things to get messier, but you're saying entropy leads to order.
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I prefer to think of entropy as related to options: The more options a system of particles has to arrange itself, the higher the entropy.
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And the entropy yesterday was higher than the entropy the day before, and so on, all the way back to the birth of our universe.
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And there's an a even bigger problem: bouncing universes require forward moving time with decreasing entropy, and as we said before, entropy always increases with time.
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"It's a version of the multiverse theory, but the difference here is that the parent universe can be high entropy," with low entropy universes sprouting off.
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A MultiverseMultiverse theory avoids the problems of decreasing entropy over time associated with the Big Bounce, and explains the low entropy universe we observe today, said Carroll.
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Even as parts of the universe, such as coffee, engines and people, experience rising entropy as their quantum information dilutes, the global entropy of the universe stays forever zero.
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In 1972 Bekenstein, then a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, suggested that black holes might have properties of heat (more precisely entropy, known today as Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy).
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Another way of putting this is that in an isolated system, entropy never decreases—although Maxwell's hypothetical did in fact seem to allow the entropy of the system to decrease.
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"Entropy" (season 2063, episode 2053) "Entropy" is a rare season six respite, a calm between the bleakness of the "Smashed"/"Wrecked" era and the horror of "Seeing Red" and all that follows.
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Once you have that it starts in a low-entropy state, the normal thermodynamic arguments lead you to expect that most of the possible initial states are going to yield an increasing entropy.
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Can I get every one of them just with entropy?
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This asymmetric warfare, if effective, can help speed America's entropy.
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But for Cooper, this did not present evidence of entropy.
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Black hole entropy is given by the black hole area.
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And grit and resolve can persevere through stretches of entropy.
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Entropy is reversed, order is brought to chaos, lives are saved.
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The more positions, the more options, and thus the more entropy.
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And that's the puzzle about thermodynamics and entropy and so on.
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The district lost even more funding and sunk further into entropy.
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"lighthouses" and "field hospitals" for refugees in flight from high-entropy
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After all, the universe is organized around the principle of entropy.
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It assumes nothing about the wilderness, other than its guaranteed entropy.
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You sense eternal cycles of creation and destruction, cohesion and entropy.
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Is volume, which is length times area, really length times entropy?
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Contribution to total entropy is a measure of how unexpected/improbable/weird a particular string is, but that is not quite entropy, because, in the strictest sense, it is a metric for global, rather than local, probability.
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So the question is, why did things start out so low entropy?
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But he said on Twitter only he was backing "entropy," or disorganization.
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The Cambridge team was attempting to calculate a property called configurational entropy.
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Local radiation and other naturally occurring phenomena can decrease its entropy, too.
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To have entropy, a black hole would have to have a temperature.
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It also meant that black holes had a temperature and had entropy.
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Nicholas Kristof The Trump presidency may now be disintegrating, tumbling toward entropy.
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To defy the law of entropy increase is, by default, never easy.
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"We want to fight entropy," Bezos writes in the 1998 shareholder letter.
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But it was also supposed to be about existential ennui and entropy.
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That reminds one of the thermodynamic second law, that entropy always increases.
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Entropy maximization has long been thought to be a trait of nonequilibrium systems.
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Suppose on one boundary there's low entropy; from that I then explain everything.
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Our bodies break down first, then our minds, in slow drips of entropy.
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Entropy dictates an arrow of time that runs only in one direction: forward.
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The answer can be derived from two concepts in physics: entropy and collisions.
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A higher-order entropy in a signal would signify a more complex language.
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The more traffic there is, the more "location entropy" the system can deliver.
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The lower the entropy, the funnier the non-word is likely to be.
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The clay piece — it's a statement of the entropy within the work itself.
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The second law of thermodynamics, for instance, states that entropy is always increasing.
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Entropy is the degree of disorder in a system, for example our universe.
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But the process of entropy—of having everything fall apart—is much faster.
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Well, thanks to the lake and Irvine's sweet entropy of compost, of course.
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Bekenstein says, if I throw something into a black hole, the entropy vanishes.
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That equation describes the entropy of a black hole—entropy can be understood as the number of different microscopic configurations that could add up to the macroscopic qualities you observe, or how a system's energy disperses out at a given temperature.
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It's interesting to ask the entropy of a black hole, because we know that not even light can escape a black hole; but at the same time, the laws of physics say that the entropy of a system can't spontaneously decrease.
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Tell me about your famous 2009 Nature paper that linked self-assembly with entropy.
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All Julia sets have what's known as a "measure of maximal entropy," or MME.
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The problem is with understanding why things started out in a low-entropy state.
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Also a massless substance that removes entropy and has never been found to exist.
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It's because the entropy of the universe is higher today than it was yesterday.
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Entropy increases from the cork to the feathers, aiming an emergent arrow of time.
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Some of my favorite horse names were Baby Godzilla, Maximum Entropy, and Coconut Roll.
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In a paper published last summer, they calculated that the entanglement entropy—a measure of how much information is stored in the coupled CFTs living on the equator—matches the known entropy formula for the corresponding spherical region of de Sitter space.
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The overall entropy of the gas-demon system increases, satisfying the second law of thermodynamics.
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They have to trust that the operating system provides the entropy the encryption algorithms need.
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The universe has a general tendency toward disorder and decay, a phenomenon known as entropy.
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Seekers of immortality are saddled with the body, the physical brain, the fact of entropy.
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Having these loose hydrogen atoms gushing around would also boost the ice's disorder, or entropy.
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As a critic, I'll keep an eye on the tendency toward entropy of large organizations.
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Now, with years of entropy and physical collapse creeping ever closer, it is downright forbidding.
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Place never really leaves you, come development or entropy, because it resides within your memory.
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"Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing," she tells us.
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His most influential work explored the nature of entropy in the vicinity of black holes.
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That&aposs why he borrowed the term "entropy," an indicator of a system&aposs disorder.
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But I can also have these just, you know, high-entropy strings of 220 characters.
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The most famous connection between black holes and thermodynamics comes from the notion of entropy.
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Some aspects of their downfall were attributable to standard baseball entropy, such as the broken finger that sidelined Manny Ramirez for six weeks after he slid head-first into catcher Dan Wilson, although in retrospect Ramirez was the human definition of non-standard baseball entropy.
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You've also thought about how entropy might have played a role in the origin of life.
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Protocells, fueled by sunlight and the law of increasing entropy, would gradually have grown more complex.
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Fifteen years ago, "we thought of entropy as a property of a thermodynamic system," he said.
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This act of information erasure has an unavoidable price: It dissipates energy, and therefore increases entropy.
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Political instability, economic crises that last decades, nuclear saber rattling... the future is all bleak entropy!
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In some cases, winding up an a universe with low entropy is less important than others.
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A Bouncing UniverseOne idea is that our low entropy universe came out of another, collapsing universe.
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Essentially, there's one grand inflationary soup that smaller, low entropy universes sprout out of like bubbles.
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The result is that your office diffuses much like a gas following the laws of entropy.
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Elevated valuations suggest a lack of predictability and risk in the market; in a word, entropy.
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For a series that's all about entropy in your early 20s, it's a fairly tidy ending.
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Hardcore, by design, is the primal scream of outcasts, and its antagonistic nature breeds only entropy.
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But the wall remembers the beautiful things that once adorned it while it slides into entropy.
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It's where we bury our fear of being mortal, of wasting away, of slouching into entropy.
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He calls it The Entropy Project, a diverse set of responses to our experiences of landscape.
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In the context of this research, Westbury and his team used what's known as Shannon entropy.
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Entropy is a big concept in information theory and black holes, as well as in biology.
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I had an inkling that it would be interesting to look at how they like to arrange with one another based solely on entropy, meaning they had no direct interactions between them—they didn't want to stick together; there's no charges; there's no nothing; there's just entropy.
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The fact that we've made it this far—given all the forces of entropy in our culture.
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I called what we saw "De-evolution," based upon the tendency toward entropy across all human endeavors.
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Incised in the stone is Hawking's most famous equation describing the entropy of a black hole. pic.twitter.
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The classical computer uses statistical tests to ensure that the output strings have a lot of entropy.
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And no wonder: "The entropy in the regulatory system is constantly growing, instead of falling," she said.
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"Memory," from Preoccupations' self-titled new album, is a suitelike excursion through bewilderment, disillusion, alienation and entropy.
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Xie Donghai, chairman of Shanghai Entropy Asset Management, said the heightened uncertainty would translate into market turbulence.
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Back pain forms a perfect metonym for the entropy that defines, well, spending a lifetime slowly dying.
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For normal stuff, we think of entropy as a measure of the disorder of the underlying atoms.
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If I identify the area of the black hole as the entropy, then I've found my compensation.
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At that temperature, the resulting glass would have an entropy as low as that of a crystal.
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Currently I am mostly working on vulnerabilities and exploits, while striving to minimize entropy in the process.
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Evans sang too, tangling his voice with Longendyke's in a language of destruction, renewal, entropy, and oblivion.
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But this can't happen, he thinks, according to the laws of thermodynamics, for entropy must always increase.
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I immediately saw that this is pretty objectionable, because it identifies entropy with uncertainty and our knowledge.
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The demon's actions divide the gas into hot and cold, concentrating its energy and lowering its overall entropy.
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Understanding entropy as a subjective measure allows the universe as a whole to evolve without ever losing information.
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This randomness is equated with the thermodynamic quantity called entropy—a measurement of disorder—which is always increasing.
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In fact, according to Carroll, our observation of time is dependent on increasing entropy since the universe began.
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Soft, squishy humans are depressingly short-lived, brief flares of creativity in the vast entropy of our universe.
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You can also make a key stronger by increasing its entropy: the randomness of the digits within it.
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Having too much stuff makes me feel out of control, like entropy is winning, and chaos is imminent.
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Not many teams get to make a return trip to the World Series; entropy comes at you fast.
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That sounded suspiciously like the second law of thermodynamics, which says entropy—a measure of disorder—cannot decrease.
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Outside of that, Hu argues that the royalties can be more reliable than the entropy of Wall Street.
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His first release since 2013 is a pair of tracks that are never far from dissolving into entropy.
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And even before the most recent confrontation, Mr. Trump's appreciation for entropy had done little to reassure them.
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Smithson, in his 1966 essay ''Entropy and the New Monuments,'' mentions a recent electrical blackout in the Northeast.
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In short, in the world of physics, the total entropy, or disorder, of the universe is continually increasing.
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An entropy of the heart grew in me, as did, which I didn't suspect, a yen for monogamy.
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Entropy, that unpleasant byproduct of consumerism, has been a subject of reality TV almost since that genre's genesis.
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Tox Screen is a wall-sized diptych of video projections that explores the behavior of television signals and entropy.
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Was it a kind of software entropy, revealing bugs and shredding programs as fast as we can code them?
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Textured claymation beautifully visualizes entropy and evolution: Columns topple, marbled blobs morph into little aliens, clay men shed skin.
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Entropy is a physical property that is completely time dependent, riding the one-way time train into the future.
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Elliott calculated entropy for human language, bird song, dolphin communication and non-linguistic sources like white noise or music.
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But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
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Intel chips usually have built-in random number generators that take their entropy from electrical "noise" inside the chip.
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These include things like the size of the file, structural elements present, and entropy (the level of randomness), etc.
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The low valuations mask unprecedented political uncertainty, said Xie Donghai, chairman of hedge fund manager Shanghai Entropy Asset Management.
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He likes to use the tube as completely non-deterministic random source (the entropy source) to produce different behaviors.
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Now, there's a rainbow burger, the rock has gone through the window, and the universe has reached total entropy.
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The resulting glass was denser, more stable, and lower in entropy than all of the glasses throughout human history.
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I take them off in the bathroom and wonder if I am more afflicted by entropy than most people.
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At Hales New York, Patterson's collages meditate on the entropy and delicate elegance of our natural and built environments.
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English boasts greater entropy, but Spanish, the majority language in more than 20 countries, ranks first, followed by Arabic.
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Ideas of entropy and the unpredictability of programmed systems and characters regularly inform the gameplay of Cheng's algorithmic simulations.
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The script was rejected, but she eventually turned it into "The Entropy Effect" (1981), an original "Star Trek" novel.
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Now it seems to me that it has the special microstate because it developed from a low-entropy initial state.
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Entropy is part of the show, the wear and tear of the world, but so too are regeneration and renewal.
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Or tracking the entropy of every pseudoparticle (?) in this 2,000 cubic-kilometer general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic rendering of a supernova progenitor!
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The Big Bang could have (and maybe should have) resulted in a high-entropy mass of uniformly distributed, disorganized stuff.
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Entropy, when things are turning over from one state to another — what it has been and what it could be.
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The second law of thermodynamics, the strictest of nature's constraints, says that entropy, a form of disorder, must always increase.
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Even environmental factors like a change in temperature or a burst of radiation won't make quantum fluctuations lose their entropy.
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The subsequent chapter, which ends in the Nevada prison where Mr. Simpson currently resides, is all entropy, squalor and sleaze.
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If a CIO can't say "no" when it makes sense, the entropy concept discussed above is a very likely scenario.
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They call it their Wall of Entropy; a wall lined with lava lamps that are being filmed with a camera.
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At Hawking's request, the memorial stone marking his grave is inscribed with his influential entropy equation describing black hole dynamics.
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Information about both the new album and Project Entropy otherwise remains scant, but you can listen to the clips below.
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Garland Briggs was a rare voice of optimism, in a show that usually depicted a world suffering from irreversible entropy.
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By this measure, Mandarin ranks low on the entropy scale since most of its speakers live in the same country.
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Terms such as decay and entropy – which we associate with Robert Smithson – come to mind while looking at Pai's work.
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That necessary increase in entropy establishes the "arrow of time," or the irreversible progression from the past into the future.
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Since Elliott's call, other shareholders have come out in support, including advisory firm Entropy on behalf of Israeli institutional investors.
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The idea of entropy, the principle whereby ordered systems become exponentially more chaotic, was a key tenet of Smithson's work.
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The discovery was the first indication of the powerful, paradoxical role that entropy plays in the emergence of complexity and order.
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Given that we still need to explain the initial low-entropy state, why do we need the internal directedness of time?
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If time didn't have a direction, wouldn't specification of a low-entropy state be enough to give it an effective direction?
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Click here to view original GIFI want to know more about the world in this short animation Entropy, by Tim Cahn.
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Anything related to accidents (drops, water damage) or time's slow march toward entropy (failure of consumables, like batteries) is not covered.
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As the episodes tap the various pillars of the gay rights movement, we are reminded that entropy makes freedom somewhat inevitable.
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The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the universe tends toward entropy, toward dissolution; but living things fiercely resist it.
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But with humans behind the wheels and entropy at play, it's not as simple as till a row, sow a row.
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Mr. Gilles suggested that bureaucratic entropy and a lack of responsibility among the political class were undermining security at the airport.
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After Chu's essay was published in Entropy, a letter and petition circulated in support of Chu, calling for greater public acknowledgment.
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But in the 1970s, Jacob Bekenstein said that the surface area of a black hole's event horizon is equivalent to entropy.
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Smithson, when searching for a framework with which to explore both limits and limitlessness, found useful the concept of entropy, i.e.
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There's a long debate in the foundations of statistical mechanics about whether entropy is a subjective notion or an objective notion.
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And if the particles are perfectly hard and have no other interactions, they will organize themselves to have the highest entropy possible.
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So particles like tetrahedra and baseballs evolve to states that allow them to wiggle in more ways and therefore have higher entropy.
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Lately, Netflix has lost its sense of entropy, thanks to a dwindling library of movies and a big push towards original content.
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I wanted to use narrative—which I see as a deterministic, scripted force—to counterbalance the entropy and chaos in the simulations.
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For instance, if there isn't enough network traffic on a server, its Linux kernel's supply of entropy may be depleted over time.
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You can imagine that either no time has passed, or that you are stuck in eternity as it devolves into endless entropy.
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Entropy is a measurement used in a variety of fields, including thermodynamics, encoding, ecology and anesthesiology, and varies by definition in each.
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It is in this film where the outcasts, the outsiders, and the perpetually neglected look on at the entropy marring the country.
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The concrete walls of Dilston Grove Church act as thresholds, separating external reality from the point of maximum entropy of Dark Water.
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In the treatment, the Daniels sketched out a cinematic poem: a brief investigation of indecision and emotional entropy in a dissolving romance.
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In the end, Greene says, entropy will get us all, and everything else in the universe, tearing down what evolution has built.
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Regardless, the band's contributions this year — first, The Book of Us: Gravity and later The Book of Us: Entropy — can't be understated.
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When I was doing drugs, there had always been this third-person observer in me, just watching the entropy of my life.
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When I saw that I thought, aha, he's thinking that not knowing about the system anymore means its entropy value has changed.
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So the next time absolutely nothing about their policies makes sense, you can still stumble upon a reminder of inevitable entropy and decline.
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Popescu and his colleagues believe that the arrow of increasing quantum entanglement underlies the expected rise in entropy—the thermodynamic arrow of time.
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The series repeatedly attributes violence and growing entropy to this demon and another dimension where evil, like a virus, flourishes for no reason.
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Like Ashbery's poetry, digression and whimsy are surface readings of a deeply felt exploration, a chance-taking and a wrestling with larger entropy.
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The equations allow for the possibility that time can flow forward or backward, even if real-world physics precludes it because of entropy.
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Dr Hawking solved this problem by showing that black holes themselves had entropy, and that the more they swallowed, the greater it got.
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In the press release it says the record is in many ways about time, specifically as it relates to the idea of entropy.
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Its revelation was that society, left alone, tended toward entropy and extremes, not because people were inherently awful but because they thought locally.
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Using the max entropy approach of machine learning, they taught a computer how to recognize the core features of different types of music.
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"What we computed in our research was the contribution of each non-word to the total entropy of the English language," he adds.
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Founded in 22009, Jukin is a market leader in a strange new industry that is organizing and monetizing the entropy of web video.
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SafeLife has a clear way of characterizing those consequences: increases in entropy (or the degree of disorder or randomness) in the game system.
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Pool balls returning to a triangle The law indicates that the entropy, or disorder, of a closed system will always increase over time.
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Rather than ushering in a new golden age, or even continuing the old one, the sheer glut of 2010s programming led to entropy.
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They lend an undertone of entropy to each work, which intrigues, because such chaotic forms disrupt the familiar effects of more calculated carving.
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Entitled "Black hole entropy and soft hair," the paper was authored by Hawking along with physicists Sasha Haco, Malcolm Perry, and Andrew Strominger.
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But the system in this model obeys a rule that lets it maximize entropy over a fixed time window that stretches into the future.
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It's been known that entropy alone can cause platelets and rodlike particles and spherical particles to align, but those ordered phases were pretty simple.
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Artists use a myriad of immersive approaches which bring the exhibition goers closer to death, exploring a near-death experience, entropy, and terminal illness.
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It was IBM and it was Microsoft, and then it was Google sort of, but still, you know, you hope that entropy will work.
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It good that there's kind of some entropy, when we have a certain amount of memory but we have to make up new things?
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This is a question I never thought about until it was asked, and now I can't stop thinking about entropy in digital worlds. 9.
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The latest evidence of this orbital entropy has been observed by NASA's HiRISE camera snapping orbital shots from onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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The reason for this phenomenon, says Westbury, relates to a word's entropy: a measurement for the likelihood of various combinations of letters being generated.
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The Dr. Seuss catalogue provides countless examples of non-words — barbaloots, truffula and snergelly, for example — which were not created with entropy in mind.
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Stephen Hawking Titled "Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair," the paper was co-authored by Hawking collaborators Sasha Haco, Malcolm Perry and Andrew Strominger.
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The piece involved dumping 21983 truckloads of dirt on an unused shed at Kent State University and letting entropy take care of the rest.
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" And in a moment of impish humor he notes that "Although nature tends toward entropy, they shared a confidence that economies tend toward equilibrium.
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A SafeLife-like model could override its programmed setting to maximize throughput, because destroying living things adds a lot of entropy to the world.
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His work has appeared in Catapult, Entropy, and F(r)iction magazine, and he is currently enrolled in the writing program at Columbia University.
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Here you see how expansive Al-Hadid's eclectic techniques really are, as they embrace world-shaping forces of cohesion and entropy, regeneration and decay.
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I like the fact that they give you the ability to have both super-high entropy ones, but then also they'll generate just words.
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If replication is present, then natural selection becomes the route by which systems acquire the ability to absorb work—Schrödinger's negative entropy—from the environment.
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In effect, the model looks at all the paths the particles could take and compels them to adopt the path that produces the greatest entropy.
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I don't know what it means to say that time really doesn't pass and it's only in virtue of entropy increasing that it seems to.
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It was an ingenious insight, but it wouldn't work unless you could calculate that entropy — a feat far beyond the computational capabilities at the time.
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Adding temperature and entropy, the relative disorder of the system, into the mix would be important, Nicholas Harrison, physicist at Imperial College, London, told Gizmodo.
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The idea of this escapement being subject to entropy, slowly decaying, and pulling time out of sync fit into the album's broader themes of codependency.
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The Californication of Folk and Rock n Roll is inevitable, but it is still attrition and entropy as opposed to new blooms on the bush.
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Crucially, the 503-bit string sampled by the quantum computer will have a lot of entropy, a measure of disorder or unpredictability, and hence randomness.
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Soon after her death scientists would discover that order is not the natural state of the universe, that entropy is the way of all things.
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The key sin in the world is a result either of entropy, the randomness that is built into any system, or faith — dogma clouding reason.
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A "passphrase" is stronger than a single password because it increases entropy, or the amount of randomness in a password, making it harder to guess.
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In a celebrated calculation in 1996, Dr. Strominger and Dr. Vafa used string theory to compute the information content, or entropy, of a black hole.
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The predominant effect is one of creative entropy, a defensive huddling in political or coterie formations that are pointedly indifferent when not hostile to outsiders.
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I didn't catch all of them—some sort of power shell invocation and then the fuxor program to encrypt the /bin directory (after gathering entropy).
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"Cold" begins to discuss the physics of entropy, but it barely restates the general principle, meanders a bit, then stops before it discovers anything unfamiliar.
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"Material things have a process of entropy and these immaterial things just change," he adds, comparing physical objects, hardware and analogue media to computer software.
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There's something much more fundamental to understand about the organization of matter, and by focusing on shape and entropy, we're getting to the core of that.
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If the top portion expresses rage and sadness, then the bottom portion reveals something more abstract: an attempt to grasp order from the entropy of war.
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Some of that information is encoded in their genes and passed on from one generation to the next: a set of instructions for reaping negative entropy.
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For example, the second law of thermodynamics states that a system's entropy—a measure of the amount of hidden microscopic information—will always grow in time.
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He had previously determined that black holes adhere to the second law of thermodynamics, which means that entropy (a measure of disorder) only increases over time.
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Actually, that's just a fancy jargon word for good old-fashioned entropy — more precisely, the statistical definition devised by the 19th century Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.
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Or at the very least, throughout history the care-freeness of youth has been sapped by the stark anxieties of a world ever hurtling toward entropy.
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So in the early 1970s, physicists like Hawking began to ask what happened to the total entropy of the system when things fell into black holes.
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As the social media giant spent its week eternally twirling, twirling, twirling towards entropy, Gizmodo's intrepid team of reporters and editors also turned their gazes elsewhere.
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Random number generators have been built that extract entropy from almost everywhere: atmospheric data, radio waves, even the movement of wax blobs in a lava lamp.
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In turn, that increase in entropy would make this ice much more stable than other kinds of ice crystals, causing its melting point to soar upward.
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The oceans rise, the sun burns, everyone you know and love will eventually die, their bones ground down by time and entropy into bits of carbon.
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Even as "Wentworth" depicts the entropy that exists within prison walls, the show itself is impressively methodical, pulling off subtle season-long games and genuine shocks.
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Sulu's first name, Hikaru, wasn't even canon until Star Trek VI, though it was introduced in 1981 in a Star Trek novel called The Entropy Effect.
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Few images show explicit depictions of the US military, but the American naval base occupying the town seems to be the source of its shadowy entropy.
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Last December, he and his colleagues published a research paper in the journal Entropy detailing how their methods of trawling social media sites could be replicated.
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His most renowned discovery, "Hawking radiation," resulted serendipitously from a dispute he lost with another young theoretical physicist, Jacob Bekenstein, over whether black holes had entropy.
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She published her account on November 3 in an essay, "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major," for Entropy Magazine.
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It offers non-sequitur humor — like a third-floor office building of bears, just bears — and meaningful dives into perception, entropy, creation, and this American life.
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If I really understood entropy, I suspect I would be writing this review in an office at M.I.T., not an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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In 1972, Jacob Bekenstein argued that a black hole's surface area was proportional to its entropy, and thus the second law similarity was a true identity.
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Their simulations showed that entropy drives simple pyramidal shapes called tetrahedra to spontaneously assemble into a quasicrystal—a spatial pattern so complex that it never exactly repeats.
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But Maxwell's letter described a thought experiment in which an enlightened being—later called Maxwell's demon—uses its knowledge to lower entropy and violate the second law.
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He accuses quantum information theorists of confusing different kinds of entropy—the thermodynamic and information-theoretic kinds—and using the latter in domains where it doesn't apply.
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Eventually all the universe will be reduced to a uniform, boring jumble: a state of equilibrium, wherein entropy is maximized and nothing meaningful will ever happen again.
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His aim was to start with a disordered box of randomly jiggling molecules, then separate the fast molecules from the slow ones, reducing entropy in the process.
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The hibernating universe theory has its own issue, explained Carroll: It also suggests our universe had a low-entropy beginning, without offering any explanation as to why.
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Falling in love and getting married changed him, as it would change anyone, and suddenly, instead of falling into near-fatal entropy, Ray seems desperate to live.
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It leans into the entropy of racial issues — the comedy may be clean, incisive one-liners, but the topics are as messy as the modern political landscape.
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Add to these generational forces of entropy the more timeless problems of pride, shame, ambition and wanderlust, and no family unit in Egan's novel seems particularly secure.
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Measurements indicated a corresponding reduction in the entropy, or disorder, of the slower-formed glass—fewer ways its molecules could be arranged with the same low energy.
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Govan thinks that this reversal came partly because Smithson championed the principle of entropy, and Heizer wanted nothing to do with an idea associated with his nemesis.
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And he writes so much more beautifully than I was ever able to about not just chaos but entropy and thermodynamics and all kinds of other scientific ideas.
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A more recent "wow" moment occurred in 2009, when Glotzer and her group at Michigan discovered that entropy, a concept commonly conflated with disorder, can actually organize things.
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Advisory firm Entropy, representing certain Israeli institutional investors, has submitted a request to call a special shareholder meeting to appoint three external directors to the board, Bezeq said.
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She's also got a hand in the music world Argento released an album entitled Total Entropy in 2013, which features — among others — the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe.
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There's a law of thermodynamics that says that the randomness and chaos of a system — known as entropy — cannot decrease over time; our messy Universe can't get cleaner.
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Bret Swanson is president of the technology research firm Entropy Economics LLC and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute's Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy.
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Using occurrence records of snow leopards between 1983 and 2015, and a "maximum entropy algorithm," they built a model of the snow leopard habitat, projecting it into 2070.
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In "The Entropy Pendulum" (2015), an image from a news archive is slowly erased by the arm of a mechanical pendulum scraping back and forth across its surface.
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DOUG AITKEN: ELECTRIC EARTH Dating back to the 1990s, Doug Aitken's video installations use postindustrial and abandoned urban landscapes to explore concepts of decay, entropy, time and history.
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For some time, the band was playing together, funneling their energies — then the entropy took over again and the players all separated out, retreating to their battle stations.
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As with Hellman's and Ramos' heat capacity measurements, the computer simulations suggest that two-level systems—competing configurations of groups of molecules—are the source of glass's entropy.
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With co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin out of the picture, Google-watchers are predicting less entropy and more attention to the ways Google actually makes money.
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"Classical music" becomes a featureless fabric from which snippets can be combined, quilt-like, in any combination or order, and it all seems headed toward a state of entropy.
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I was sorry not to see the ultimate death of Mutiny, but I thought there was something elegant about suggesting it was an unexciting entropy in the space between.
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As for why our universe started out in such a low-entropy state in the first place—well, that's a question that physicists like Carroll continue to grapple with.
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"We found the bigger the difference in the entropy between the two words, the more likely the subjects were to choose the way we expected them to," says Westbury.
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Mechanical Entropy, as the first watch model was named, is semi-skeletonized to reveal tiny components that give the impression the timepiece was shattered at a point of impact.
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On his deathbed, he quoted the third law of thermodynamics, which was about stasis and the stopping of entropy in a perfect crystal as the temperatures approach absolute zero.
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In thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system&aposs disorder.
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The tighter we can squeeze it into a regulated space, the more it seems like we — not god, or chance, or entropy — are the ones who get to control it.
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Ahead of the vote, Israeli consultancy Entropy - whose clients are institutional investors - said the valuation Nestle offered is too low and less than other purchases by Nestle in recent years.
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With the math of "information theory," you can potentially figure out how many orders of entropy a language has by listening for how the language deals with interference or noise.
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These transcendental technologists took the word extropy to mean the opposite of entropy, the process by which all things eventually decay, and they imagined a way of life to match.
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All their music, but especially We're Not Talking, channels the pure, violent entropy of living; you can hardly expect any one song, even any one note, to stay the same.
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Bret Swanson is president of the technology research firm Entropy Economics LLC, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
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His accounts of the latest thinking about microbiology or information theory are as adroit as his exploration of the links between entropy and time or his elucidation of Bayesian statistics.
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The entropy unleashed by new levels of access to information is an event that has historical precedent that we should observe and learn from while we still have the chance.
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So here we are: The Iowa debacle really hurt the state party here because they used the same vendor and perceptions are becoming imbued about caucuses and their attendant entropy.
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The market is "in short-term shock", Donghai Xie, chairman and chief investment officer at Entropy Capital, told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in Shanghai on Thursday.
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I glean from seeing these things that poverty is other than just deprivation; it is also dilapidation — the slide towards entropy that isn't held in check by dutiful and competent maintenance.
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In any case, the computer or server will pool all that random information into a reservoir of entropy that the system dips into — for instance, when generating digital signatures or keys.
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His story begins there, with his discovery as a teenager by Philadelphia A's owner-manager Connie Mack (again, both also defunct—entropy is hard at work on the Sam Crane story).
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Nougat also makes it harder to successfully exploit the compromise by adding more entropy to the address randomization system, which some researchers were able to bypass in the wake of Stagefright.
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Even the most well-produced recordings of his career have a sprinkle of entropy in their rhythm, weird pauses before or after notes, no use for a metronome or a tuner.
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It is also occasionally afflicted with stretches of prose that seem as if eternity will come before you ever get through them, especially when Greene is discussing challenging topics like entropy.
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Without his dictatorship, the system will degenerate into entropy, and bankruptcy or, even more dangerously will become increasingly open to demands by the public for more transparency, accountability, and democratizing pressures.
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A disillusioned idealist often overwhelmed by the staggering injustice and entropy of neoliberalist America is perhaps is led to wonder what, in the big picture, is the point of all this imagining?
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The gist of his argument is that the world is full of information; some of it is accurate and valuable (signal), while other components are counterproductive and can produce systemic entropy (noise).
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The Democratic field, however, is in a state of unproductive entropy, in part because the Party has not resolved the divisions and the contradictions that drew younger voters, in particular, to Sanders.
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" But "due to the system's idiosyncrasies," writes the artist, "it will recover from that entropy and the sensors will eventually get in sync again, only to launch their descent into chaos [anew].
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There are ways of curing or delaying entropy in our relationships—mostly we just need to seek new things to appreciate in one another—but ballplayers mostly just get worse and worse.
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His music, even since Pavement melted into entropy in 1999, has been jarring and opaque, defined by lyrics that circle around homonyms and puns, or break from generational observations into non sequiturs.
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Gingertown also discourages participants from making their structures too tall, because the results remain on display anywhere from 1-3 weeks after the build, and bigger gingerbread buildings are prone to entropy.
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Trammell: Although we don't know what the UI for Ecoin is like; if it is tied to a mobile device, then a strong entropy key could be used on the device itself.
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Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 film, "The Great Beauty," which captured an Oscar for best foreign-language film, was a love letter to Rome, city of saints and sinners, in all its gorgeous entropy.
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The alternating rough and smooth selection and treatment of his materials serve as a symbolic parallel to his subject matter — uncertain beauty, along with undeniable entropy, lies in the present and future.
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Peter Wehner ONE of the essential, if often unstated, job requirements of an American president is to provide stability, order and predictability in a world that tends toward chaos, disarray and entropy.
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Yet at the time, Hawking and others emphasized that the laws of black holes only looked like thermodynamics on paper; they did not actually relate to thermodynamic concepts like temperature or entropy.
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The ISA said on Tuesday that Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has nominated Anat Guetta, who most recently was chief executive of proxy advisory firm Entropy Financial Research for seven years, to replace Hauser.
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One of the strangest properties of our universe is that it has very low entropy, meaning there is relatively low disorder, or conversely a large amount of order, among all of the particles.
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The process of extracting this information about the system is a form of work, and therefore the entropy of the system does in fact increase in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics.
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