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		<title>Talk:2318: Dynamic Entropy</title>
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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)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Allegrini, P., Douglas, J. F., &amp;amp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;
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: Asadi, M., Ebrahimi, N., Hamedani, G., &amp;amp; Soofi, E. (2004). Maximum Dynamic Entropy Models. Journal of Applied Probability, 41(2), 379-390. Retrieved June 11, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/3216023&lt;br /&gt;
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: Green, J. R., Costa, A. B., Grzybowski, B. A., &amp;amp; Szleifer, I. (2013). Relationship between dynamical entropy and energy dissipation far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(41), 16339-16343.&lt;br /&gt;
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: S. Satpathy et al., &amp;quot;An All-Digital Unified Static/Dynamic Entropy Generator Featuring Self-Calibrating Hierarchical Von Neumann Extraction for Secure Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication in IoT Mote Platforms,&amp;quot; 2018 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Honolulu, HI, 2018, pp. 169-170, doi: 10.1109/VLSIC.2018.8502369.&lt;br /&gt;
:[[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 01:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::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)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Done [[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 09:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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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 &amp;quot;instance optimality&amp;quot;, though...) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.122|162.158.159.122]] 08:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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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 &amp;quot;surprising&amp;quot; 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)&lt;br /&gt;
::Because entropy is the ''inverse'' of how &amp;quot;surprising&amp;quot; or organized of full of information a system is. [[User:Bugstomper|Bugstomper]] ([[User talk:Bugstomper|talk]]) 09:27, 11 June 2020 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I can think of a number of cases where &amp;quot;dynamic&amp;quot; would be a bad thing, but not necessarily pejorative. The structure of a building had better not be dynamic (think &amp;quot;sudden energetic disassembly&amp;quot;), 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)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:865: Nanobots</title>
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&lt;div&gt;So IPv6 gives us enough addresses to cover 40% of the earth in nanobots? I'm sold. IPv6 addresses for everyone! '''[[User:Davidy22|&amp;lt;u&amp;gt;{{Color|purple|David}}&amp;lt;font color=green size=3px&amp;gt;y&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=indigo size=4px&amp;gt;²²&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;[talk]&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;]] 10:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The top header on this page is different from the others. It advertises that xkcd is IPv6 enabled: &amp;quot;xkcd.com now has IPv6 connectivity. If you can't reach it, you or your ISP have misconfigured equipment. Sadly, I now have no way to tell you.&amp;quot; [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.163|141.101.70.163]] 22:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The xkcd page doesn't have an IPv6 address. Has this changed since 2014? -- [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.219|162.158.91.219]] 14:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I'm pretty sure it's a joke. [[User:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8]] ([[User talk:625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8|talk]]) 02:22, 9 March 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::It's not a joke and the top header page is still there. The website supports IPv6 since this comic was published like the header says. And my ISP (Deutsche Telekom) still doesn't support this in 2017. The current addresses are:&lt;br /&gt;
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:::But this was registered in 2014 -- 2011 must have been different.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:09, 9 March 2017 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think this maybe be a reference to the scifi book &amp;quot;plague year&amp;quot;  it's a good book,  and it fits this comic perfectly.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.220|108.162.219.220]] 10:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh no! I think I got a multicast/link-local/unique local/other reserved address! [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.67|173.245.55.67]] 06:43, 6 August 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I did the math, it worked out. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28earth+volume+in+cubic+micrometers%29%2F2.5 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.212|162.158.78.212]] 03:29, 3 June 2020 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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