The hottest Entropy Substack posts right now

Effective information and feedback structures are crucial for long-term social functioning.
Bureaucratisation can undermine the resilience of societies by hindering alternative ways of governance.
Language plays a vital role in conveying coordinating information, but can also degrade feedback systems.

Huawei's Pangu AI model shows promise in weather prediction, outperforming some standard models in accuracy and speed.
Google's Metnet models, using neural networks, excel in predicting weather based on images of rain clouds, showcasing novel ways to approach weather simulation.
Neural networks are efficient in processing complex data, like rain cloud images, to extract detailed information and act as entropy sinks, providing insights into real-world phenomena simulation.

Entropy is a measure of energy spreading out, not disorder as commonly thought.
Negentropy describes useful energy that becomes dispersed and useless, and its decrease is important for interesting phenomena.
Climate change should be approached as a thermodynamic reckoning, balancing the negentropy from the sun to create a sustainable society.

Some people feel a longing for a noble cause to fight and die for, like in the story of Ragnarok.
Even though everything eventually falls apart and we all will die, humans continue to live and fight against entropy.
Fighting against decay, disorder, chaos, apathy, and death until the very end can be seen as a warrior's death.

Information Theory studies how randomness and predictability affect the transmission and compression of data.
Entropy measures the information gained from a source, highlighting the balance between predictability and unpredictability.
Redundancy can protect messages against noise in communication channels, showing the importance in modern data transmission scenarios.

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Thoughts can be viewed as a form of energy, following the First Law of Thermodynamics. Your thoughts have sources like your experiences and food, and lead to actions and behaviors.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics applies to the mind, suggesting that without active engagement in learning, relationships, or creativity, our minds decay into chaos. Fostering a sense of meaning and purpose helps combat this decay.
One must identify their 'why' in the battle against entropy. Building systems, relationships, and investing in values can help endure beyond one's lifetime, much like how businesses or legacies can persist through deliberate design.