In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data...
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In information theory, the entropy of a random variable quantifies the average level of uncertainty or information associated with the variable's potential...
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successor. Reversible computing is considered an unconventional approach to computation and is closely linked to quantum computing, where the principles...
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be confused Entropy encoding, data compression strategies to produce a code length equal to the entropy of a message Entropy (computing), an indicator...
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concept of entropy is central, Shannon was persuaded to employ the same term 'entropy' for his measure of uncertainty. Information entropy is often presumed...
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signal. Entropy Entropy production Entropy rate History of entropy Entropy of mixing Entropy (information theory) Entropy (computing) Entropy (energy dispersal)...
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entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one with largest entropy,...
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Kullback–Leibler divergence (redirect from Kullback–Leibler entropy)
statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence (also called relative entropy and I-divergence), denoted D KL ( P ∥ Q ) {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel...
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In physics, the von Neumann entropy, named after John von Neumann, is a measure of the statistical uncertainty within a description of a quantum system...
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Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse...
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In statistics and information theory, a maximum entropy probability distribution has entropy that is at least as great as that of all other members of...
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Residual entropy is the difference in entropy between a non-equilibrium state and crystal state of a substance close to absolute zero. This term is used...
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Bit (redirect from Bit (computing))
is usually a nibble. In information theory, one bit is the information entropy of a random binary variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability, or the...
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In information theory, the conditional entropy quantifies the amount of information needed to describe the outcome of a random variable Y {\displaystyle...
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Measure-preserving dynamical system (redirect from Kolmogorov entropy)
crucial role in the construction of the measure-theoretic entropy of a dynamical system. The entropy of a partition Q {\displaystyle {\mathcal {Q}}} is defined...
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Hardware random number generator (redirect from Entropy pool)
generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy, unlike a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that utilizes a deterministic...
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Password strength (redirect from Password entropy)
bear in mind that since computing power continually grows, to prevent offline attacks the required number of bits of entropy should also increase over...
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quantum computing journals which is a collection of peer-reviewed scientific journals that publish research in the field of quantum computing, including...
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Orders of magnitude (data) (section Entropy)
Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory. Entropy (information theory), such as the amount of information that can be stored in DNA Entropy (thermodynamics)...
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Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the...
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Second law of thermodynamics (redirect from Law of Entropy)
Rex, Andrew F. (eds.) 2003. Maxwell's Demon 2 : Entropy, classical and quantum information, computing. Bristol UK; Philadelphia PA: Institute of Physics...
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The entropy of entanglement (or entanglement entropy) is a measure of the degree of quantum entanglement between two subsystems constituting a two-part...
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team developed the so-called theory of liquid state machine, or high entropy computing. In 2002, he moved to EPFL as full professor and founder/director...
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The League of Entropy (LoE) is a voluntary consortium of organizations working together to implement an unpredictable, bias-resistant, fully decentralized...
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Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity...
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In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. It is proportional to the expectation of the q-logarithm...
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Mutual information (redirect from Mutual entropy)
(2007). "Section 14.7.3. Conditional Entropy and Mutual Information". Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (3rd ed.). New York: Cambridge University...
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Bekenstein bound (redirect from Bekenstein entropy bound)
after Jacob Bekenstein) is an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy S, or Shannon entropy H, that can be contained within a given finite region of space...
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Kolmogorov complexity (redirect from Algorithmic entropy)
complexity, program-size complexity, descriptive complexity, or algorithmic entropy. It is named after Andrey Kolmogorov, who first published on the subject...
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ISBN 0-486-60434-9 H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex, Editors, Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1990)....
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