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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Rényi entropy is a quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy. The...
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium....
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  • In physics, the von Neumann entropy, named after John von Neumann, is an extension of the concept of Gibbs entropy from classical statistical mechanics...
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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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    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 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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  • inspired by black hole thermodynamics, which conjectures that the maximum entropy in any region scales with the radius squared, and not cubed as might be...
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    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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  • 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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  • In cryptography full entropy is a property of an output of a random number generator. The output has full entropy if it cannot practically be distinguished...
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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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  • Entropy is a 1999 film directed by Phil Joanou, starring Stephen Dorff and featuring the Irish rock band U2. A largely autobiographical film about director...
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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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    Entropy production (or generation) is the amount of entropy which is produced during heat process to evaluate the efficiency of the process. Entropy is...
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