entropy

How To Use entropy In A Sentence

• Using the entropy framework, a prior, or expected value, and upper and lower bounds are needed for each estimated coefficient and error term.
• In Chapter 3 we discussed how the thermodynamic arrow of entropy increase is a reflection of the relative probabilities of various states.
• Given an initial condition on a time-like hypersurface as a mathematical model for the universe, we can determine in which direction a dynamics (supposed here to be deterministic, whether applied to a quantum or to a classical state) causes the entropy to increase or to decrease. Arrow of Time FAQ
• This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
• When you see a natural stone formation, you are seeing the result of eons of active degradation and entropy.
• This paper contributes both to the theoretical researches on fuzzy entropy and the applications of fuzzy entropy.
• In this paper, a dynamic programming model of them-dimensional bottleneck assignment problem is established, also a suitable solution of this model is given based on entropy.
• entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
• … there need be no entropy generated in adiabatic processes – which occur frequently in living systems …". An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris
• They have used something called entropy, which measures the uncertainty in a random variable. Times, Sunday Times