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Dispelling Maxwell’s demon
Maxwell’s demon is one of the most famous thought experiments in the history of physics, a puzzle first posed in the 1860s that continues to shape scientific debates to this day. I’ve struggled to make sense of it for years. … Continue reading
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Tagged arrow of time, Charles Bennett, decoherence, Dennis Gabor, entropy, information theory, James Clerk Maxwell, Leo Szilard, Léon Brillouin, Maxwell's demon, no-cloning theorem, quantum entanglement, quantum information, Quantum mechanics, Rolf Landauer, Schrödinger's cat, second law of thermodynamics, unitarity, wavefunction collapse
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Journalistic entropy
Say you need to store a square image 1,000 pixels wide to a side with the smallest filesize (setting aside compression techniques). The image begins with the colour #009900 on the left side and, as you move towards the right, … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theories, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, entropy, fact-checking, false balance, health journalism, image compression, Indian Council of Medical Research, information theory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Priyanka Pulla, pseudoscience, science journalism, thermodynamics, Washington Post
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