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.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/what-is-entropy/
@CapitalB yet people accept paying taxes
@begsby probier mal die flora incognita app!
@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.
uspol, biden deadlines, journalists
@undead So uh
There are about 20 brown bears on live camera now, just stuffing themselves silly.
@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.
@DCR klingt gut! mal gucken was es nachher gibt :)
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