Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used...
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In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent to the variable's...
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In information theory, the cross-entropy between two probability distributions p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} , over the same underlying...
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Second law of thermodynamics (redirect from Law of Entropy)
process." The second law of thermodynamics establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system. It predicts whether processes...
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The entropy unit is a non-S.I. unit of thermodynamic entropy, usually denoted "e.u." or "eU" and equal to one calorie per kelvin per mole, or 4.184 joules...
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Kullback–Leibler divergence (redirect from Kullback–Leibler entropy)
statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence (also called relative entropy and I-divergence), denoted D KL ( P ∥ Q ) {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel...
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Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the...
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Look up entropy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness...
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Heat death of the universe (redirect from Entropy death)
energy, and will therefore be unable to sustain processes that increase entropy. Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only...
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and electrical engineering. A key measure in information theory is entropy. Entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty involved in the value of a random...
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Maximum entropy thermodynamics Maximum entropy spectral estimation Principle of maximum entropy Maximum entropy probability distribution Maximum entropy classifier...
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In information theory, an entropy coding (or entropy encoding) is any lossless data compression method that attempts to approach the lower bound declared...
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Entropy is one of the few quantities in the physical sciences that require a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As one...
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Differential entropy (also referred to as continuous entropy) is a concept in information theory that began as an attempt by Claude Shannon to extend...
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entropy is a sociological theory that evaluates social behaviours using a method based on the second law of thermodynamics. The equivalent of entropy...
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Hardware random number generator (redirect from Entropy pool)
physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a physical entropy source), unlike the pseudorandom number...
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In information theory, the conditional entropy quantifies the amount of information needed to describe the outcome of a random variable Y {\displaystyle...
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Third law of thermodynamics (section Example: Entropy change of a crystal lattice heated by an incoming photon)
The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system at thermodynamic equilibrium approaches a constant value when its temperature...
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entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one with largest entropy,...
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Boltzmann constant (redirect from Dimensionless entropy)
constant, and in Planck's law of black-body radiation and Boltzmann's entropy formula, and is used in calculating thermal noise in resistors. The Boltzmann...
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define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium....
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Electronic entropy is the entropy of a system attributable to electrons' probabilistic occupation of states. This entropy can take a number of forms. The...
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In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. It is proportional to the expectation of the q-logarithm...
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Black hole thermodynamics (redirect from Black hole entropy)
law of thermodynamics requires that black holes have entropy. If black holes carried no entropy, it would be possible to violate the second law by throwing...
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In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data...
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Holographic principle (redirect from Holographic entropy bound)
bound of black hole thermodynamics, which conjectures that the maximum entropy in any region scales with the radius squared, rather than cubed as might...
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Entropy monitoring is a method of assessing the effect of certain anaesthetic drugs on the brain's EEG. It was commercially developed by Datex-Ohmeda...
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/dev/random (section Entropy injection)
generators (CSPRNGs). They allow access to a CSPRNG that is seeded with entropy (a value that provides randomness) from environmental noise, collected...
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Entropy: Zero 2 is a 2022 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Breadmen. It is a single-player modification for Half-Life 2 (2004)...
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The concept entropy was first developed by German physicist Rudolf Clausius in the mid-nineteenth century as a thermodynamic property that predicts that...
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