Tag: Entropy

Every data scientist knows this: the first step to the solution of a Machine Learning problem is the exploration of the data. And it’s not only about understanding which features can help you in solving the problem. That is actually something that requires domain knowledge, a lot of ef...

“It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G Webster’s dictionary defines Entropy in thermodynamics as a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the sy...

I remember several years ago when I was reshaping my career from finance into data science and being fascinated about how the book Data Science for Business (Provost & Fawcett) introduced the concept of Entropy in their classification examples, so elegantly, so powerful yet s...

Yes, the proposed title neatly captures the essence of the entropy duality framework bridging general relativity and quantum mechanics in alignment with Eastern philosophies: “Unification of General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics: Bi-directional entropy conjecture that reflects Buddhist...

Thermodynamics is a scientific branch that deals with the study of energy and its transformations. This branch of physics provides a framework for understanding and analyzing the behavior of systems. It ranges from microscopic particles to large-scale processes. Two key concepts ...

Entropy is why our universe has disorder and randomness. It is the building block of why things happen, but what is the opposite of entropy? Does it exist, and if it does, what does it do, and what does it bring? In the world of physics and thermodynamics, entropy is a term th...

Imagine you’ve got a glass high up on a counter, and it falls down to the floor. Physics tells you what’s going to happen: your glass is going to hit the floor with a specific velocity, and with a certain calculable amount of kinetic energy. That impact can easily result in the glass sha...

One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics. It tell us that, in any physical system, where nothing (no particles and no energy) is exchanged with the outside environment, entropy always increases. This is true not only of a closed and isolated syste...

In this context, he has also worked intensively on the question of the nature and underlying principle of the phenomenon of “#entropy”, which he has published in numerous popular science books that are often quoted but also controversially discussed. The basic tenor of all his pu...

Entropy was originally introduced by Clausius in the early 1850s in order to describe energy loss in irreversible processes, which turned very useful to predict the spontaneous evolution of systems (e.g. chemical reactions, phase transitions, etc). But at that time, this was more like an a...

Imagine you’ve got a glass high up on a counter, and it falls down to the floor. Physics tells you what’s going to happen: your glass is going to hit the floor with a specific velocity, and with a certain calculable amount of kinetic energy. That impact can easily result in the glass sha...

When we toss a die the observed result can range between 1 and 6. Suppose that we are given a die and we are told that it was tossed multiple times yielding an average of 4.7 rather than 3.5 that someone would expect from a fair regular symmetrical die. Given this information how one should upd...