2007-02-19T09:59:00.000-08:00

Is string theory getting attempting an infinite challenge?

2002-12-27T13:13:00.000-08:00

ectropy ???? I just noticed this in the wordnet search below ... The "opposite" of entropy. When did they come up with this? Merriam Webster Online doesn't show it.
By contrast entropy gets this:
Main Entry: en·tro·py Pronunciation: 'en-tr&-pE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -pies Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary 2en- + Greek tropE change, literally, turn, from trepein to turn Date: 1875 1 : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder and that is a property of the system's state and is related to it in such a manner that a reversible change in heat in the system produces a change in the measure which varies directly with the heat change and inversely with the absolute temperature at which the change takes place; broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system 2 a : the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity b : a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder

2002-12-27T12:56:00.000-08:00

blogger is blogging out right now. actually, not ... just another feature I wasn't aware of ... goes to show you that entropy rules and randomness beats cleverness half of the time. [is that being a bit recursive ;-) ]

2002-12-27T12:32:00.000-08:00

So What's new in entropy today?

Doing some random tests ... this is what the great web returns

Latest books on: entropy

Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial (Oxford Science Publications) by D. S. Sivia

Sons of Entropy by Christopher Golden

Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer by James L. Adams

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life by Jeremy Campbell

Star Trek: The Entropy Effect by Vonda McIntyre

Entropy in the UK (The Invisibles, Book 3) by Grant Morrison

The Dialogues of Time and Entropy by Aryeh Lev Stollman

Introductory Statistical Mechanics by Roger Bowley

The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World by Jack Hokikian

Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order by Rudolf Arnheim

The Entropy Law and the Economic Process by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Maximum Entropy Econometrics: Robust Estimation with Limited Data by Amos Golan

Star Trek: The Entropy Effect by audible.com

Entropy and Entropy Generation by J. S. Shiner

Controlling Entropy with Neural Feature Detectors by Ryotaro Kamimura

"Coordinate Terms" for "entropy" from Wordnet 1.7.1

2 senses of entropy

Sense 1
entropy -- ((thermodynamics) a measure of the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing work; entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity)
    -> physical phenomenon -- (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
       => atmospheric phenomenon -- (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)
       => boundary layer -- (the layer of slower flow of a fluid past a surface)
       => chaos -- (the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos)
       => cloud -- (any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible)
       => decalescence -- (phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal)
       => electrical phenomenon -- (a physical phenomenon involving electricity)
       => electricity -- (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)
       => energy -- ((physics) the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms")
       => power -- ((physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second))
       => ectropy -- (the opposite of entropy: increasing order (as resulting from growth and development))
       => entropy -- ((thermodynamics) a measure of the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing work; entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity)
       => event -- ((relativity theory) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory)
       => field, field of force, force field -- (the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it)
       => force -- ((physics) the physical influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration")
       => hysteresis -- (the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field)
       => resonance -- (an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation)
       => mechanical phenomenon -- (a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects)
       => opacity -- (the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation)
       => optical phenomenon -- (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
       => pressure, pressure level, force per unit area -- (the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit); "the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure")
       => reflection, reflexion -- (the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface)
       => refraction -- (the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another)
       => resolving power, resolution -- (the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together)
       => resolution -- ((computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture)
       => conduction, conductivity -- (the transmission of heat or electricity or sound)
       => propagation -- (the movement of a wave through a medium)
       => interaction, fundamental interaction -- ((physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons)
       => surface tension -- (a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces)
       => syzygy -- (the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system)
       => transparency, transparence -- (permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation)
       => turbulence, turbulency -- (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)
       => flotation, floatation -- (the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking))

Sense 2
information, selective information, entropy -- ((communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information")
    -> information measure -- (a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the information-bearing events)
       => information, selective information, entropy -- ((communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information")
       => bandwidth -- (a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel)
       => baud, baud rate -- ((computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems)

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Pinnacles of Civilization * from Wordnet 1.7.1 (++)

Innovations and emerging technologies in entropy, Patent List (when available) for entropy:

6,499,011: Method of adapting linguistic speech models
6,498,896: Recording apparatus able to control the recording of compressed image pictures so that pictures which are necessary to restore the last pictures are recorded
6,498,811: Lossless encoding/decoding in a transmission system
6,498,809: Video bitstream error resilient transcoder, method, video-phone, video-communicator and device
6,498,725: Method and two-phase spray cooling apparatus
6,497,959: Use of dendrimers as a processing aid and surface modifier for thermoplastic resins
6,496,998: Proton motive force toothbrush
6,496,933: Document authentication using a mark that is separate from document information
6,496,798: Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding frames of voice model parameters into a low bit rate digital voice message
6,496,761: Optimization control method for shock absorber
6,496,591: Video copy-control with plural embedded signals
6,496,228: Significant scene detection and frame filtering for a visual indexing system using dynamic thresholds
6,495,681: Local anesthetic compounds and uses
6,495,506: Acidic all purpose liquid cleaning compositions
6,494,051: Hot water supply system
6,494,045: High density combined cycle power plant process
6,493,666: System and method for processing data from and for multiple channels
6,493,637: Coincidence detection method, products and apparatus
6,493,460: Method and apparatus for automatically detecting malignancy-associated changes
6,492,917: System and method for implementation of the YK lossless data compression algorithm using a modular computational architecture
6,492,916: Method and apparatus for generating multiple selectable contexts
6,492,784: Propulsion device and method employing electric fields for producing thrust
6,492,204: Electronic devices having thermodynamic encapsulant portions predominating over thermostatic encapsulant portions
6,491,871: System for determining receptor-ligand binding affinity
6,491,236: Method and device for injecting a fuel/liquid mixture into the combustion chamber of a burner
6,490,910: Apparatus and a method for investigating the properties of a solid material by inverse chromatography
6,490,875: Regenerative adsorption process and multi-reactor regenerative adsorption chiller
RE37,932: Supermicrocellular foamed materials
6,490,645: Optimized random access scheme for a shared response
6,490,549: Automatic orthographic transformation of a text stream
6,490,478: System and method for complexity analysis-based cardiac tachyarrhythmia detection
6,490,374: Accelerated signal encoding and reconstruction using pixon method
6,490,373: Apparatus and method of decoding an image using a statistical model based on pixels
6,490,323: Fast compressed domain processing using orthogonality
6,489,465: Xylofuranosly-containing nucleoside phosphoramidites and polynucleotides
6,489,093: Combinatorial approach for generating novel coordination complexes
6,488,857: Method of separating hemoglobin A2
6,488,855: Non-polar media for polynucleotide separations
6,487,694: Method and apparatus for turbo-code decoding a convolution encoded data frame using symbol-by-symbol traceback and HR-SOVA
6,487,535: Multi-channel audio encoder
6,487,319: Apparatus and method for identifying the location of a coding unit
6,487,317: Conjugate-channel compression of images to be multitoned
6,487,249: Efficient down conversion system for 2:1 decimation
6,486,981: Color image processing method and apparatus thereof
6,486,654: Calibration of magnetic force or scanning hall probe microscopes by measuring sample images and calculating instrument response functions
6,486,287: Functionalized silicon compounds and methods for their synthesis and use
6,486,286: Use of hexahydrolupulones as antibacterial agents
6,486,253: Polymer/clay nanocomposite having improved gas barrier comprising a clay material with a mixture of two or more organic cations and a process for preparing same
6,485,945: Polysaccharide compositions and uses thereof

2002-07-18T17:49:00.000-07:00

If you know what s=k log W is, you're in. If you don't, roll the dice again.

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