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Something big happened this weekend. Everyone is talking about it, wondering what the implications will be.

That's right: I finished writing my new book "What is Entropy?" It's just 120 pages long. It has lots of short sections, mostly one page each, each based on a tweet. This is just a draft, and I'm still fixing lots of typos and other mistakes. So grab a copy - and if you catch errors, please let me know, either here or on my blog!

It is not a pop book: it's an introduction that assumes you know calculus. But it's about a lot of big, bold concepts, and I try to really get to the bottom of them:

• information
• Shannon entropy and Gibbs entropy
• the principle of maximum entropy
• the Boltzmann distribution
• temperature and coolness
• the relation between entropy, expected energy and temperature
• the equipartition theorem
• the partition function
• the relation between entropy, free energy and expected energy
• the entropy of a classical harmonic oscillator
• the entropy of a classical particle in a box
• the entropy of a classical ideal gas

I learned a lot by trying to explain in words what people often say only in equations.

johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2

if the EU wouldn't do all kinds of virtue signalling bullshit around the globe there would be money left to fund european software projects.

people should really decide what they want.

@sun i have a theory that those emigrating are often not the "most popular" in their own countries as well.

there certainly are nice people emigrating as well, but some countries really seem to run an asshole export business.

the nice people absolutely despise the assholes of course as it ruins things for everyone.

@sun it's always wild to hear those stories of indians in canada because there are very few here and the ones that are are acting like normal people.

who called it apple vision and not eyepods

küppersbusch ist der einzige bei der taz mit resten von integrität

uspol, biden deadlines, journalists 

@undead So uh

The pandemic response kicked off the most incredible federal government spending binge since World War II. No one likes to talk about this either, though in the annals of fiscal policy, it goes down in history.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/the-pandemic-response-was-the-turning-point.html
One thing that free thinkers on both the left and right agree on is that we don't want to be ruled over by corporate oligarchs, driven by greed and beholden only to their shareholders.

Statists, however, seem to think that we'd be better off being ruled over by government oligarchs who are, as history has repeatedly shown, beholden to no one.

@timkmak guess it's time for another generation of men to die in a brother war about jack shit while politicians sit comfy at home, raking in money for themselves and their friends.

Converting all my images to JPEG, call it Jay Pegging.

If you're following orders you are not following conscience."

Mark Passio

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