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Can confirm, have never lost an argument. [[User:Dynamic Entropy|Dynamic Entropy]] ([[User talk:Dynamic Entropy|talk]]) 00:45, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | Can confirm, have never lost an argument. [[User:Dynamic Entropy|Dynamic Entropy]] ([[User talk:Dynamic Entropy|talk]]) 00:45, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
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: Allegrini, P., Douglas, J. F., & Glotzer, S. C. (1999). Dynamic entropy as a measure of caging and persistent particle motion in supercooled liquids. Physical Review E, 60(5), 5714, doi: 10.1103/physreve.60.5714. | : Allegrini, P., Douglas, J. F., & Glotzer, S. C. (1999). Dynamic entropy as a measure of caging and persistent particle motion in supercooled liquids. Physical Review E, 60(5), 5714, doi: 10.1103/physreve.60.5714. | ||
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::Can someone with knowledge of the reference system in a wiki make the reference appear above the discussion, maybe in a section named References?--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:06, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ::Can someone with knowledge of the reference system in a wiki make the reference appear above the discussion, maybe in a section named References?--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:06, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
:::Done [[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 09:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | :::Done [[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 09:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
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Well bugger me (METAPHOR! METAPHOR!) but my current Master thesis in Computer Science could use that term without much shoehorning. (tl;dr: Binary search trees that adapt, =dynamic, can serve a query series faster than static, and the gain depends on the structure of the query series, =entropy. I prefer the good old "instance optimality", though...) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.122|162.158.159.122]] 08:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | Well bugger me (METAPHOR! METAPHOR!) but my current Master thesis in Computer Science could use that term without much shoehorning. (tl;dr: Binary search trees that adapt, =dynamic, can serve a query series faster than static, and the gain depends on the structure of the query series, =entropy. I prefer the good old "instance optimality", though...) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.122|162.158.159.122]] 08:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
This seems to tie in with the recent comic [[2315]]: ''Eventual Consistency'', which is also about entropy (in a thermodynamic(al) sense), but I guess that like the rest of the world I don't know what entropy really is, because if [[wikipedia:Entropy (information theory)|entropy]] is a measure of how "surprising" a variable is, why is everything being flat and spread out evenly called a state of maximum entropy? Everything being the same doesn't sound very surprising to me... --[[User:IByte|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte|talk]]) 09:08, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | This seems to tie in with the recent comic [[2315]]: ''Eventual Consistency'', which is also about entropy (in a thermodynamic(al) sense), but I guess that like the rest of the world I don't know what entropy really is, because if [[wikipedia:Entropy (information theory)|entropy]] is a measure of how "surprising" a variable is, why is everything being flat and spread out evenly called a state of maximum entropy? Everything being the same doesn't sound very surprising to me... --[[User:IByte|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte|talk]]) 09:08, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
− | ::Because entropy is the ''inverse'' of how "surprising" or organized | + | ::Because entropy is the ''inverse'' of how "surprising" or organized of full of information a system is. [[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 09:27, 11 June 2020 (UTC) |
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I can think of a number of cases where "dynamic" would be a bad thing, but not necessarily pejorative. The structure of a building had better not be dynamic (think "sudden energetic disassembly"), and when my (salaried, should be steady) paycheck becomes dynamic, I have to talk to HR. Can someone come up with a pejorative? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.212|162.158.78.212]] 11:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | I can think of a number of cases where "dynamic" would be a bad thing, but not necessarily pejorative. The structure of a building had better not be dynamic (think "sudden energetic disassembly"), and when my (salaried, should be steady) paycheck becomes dynamic, I have to talk to HR. Can someone come up with a pejorative? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.212|162.158.78.212]] 11:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
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