What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

(quomodocumque.wordpress.com)

26 points | by sebg 5 days ago ago

2 comments

  • kylehotchkiss 19 minutes ago

    In John C. Baez "What is Entropy?" (A 122 page PDF best suited for reading on airplanes without wifi and in flight entertainment), he states:

    > It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn.

    The entropy of a random integer being 1 makes intrinsic sense to me, given I didn't spend years in theoretical math classes

  • buredoranna 2 hours ago

    one of my favorites

    https://xkcd.com/221/