Physics · Primitives
Entropy
Measure of disorder
Definition
Mechanism
A quantitative measure of disorder, uncertainty, or information content in a System or Message.
Invariants
None stated.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
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Infrastructure
Non-transactional maintenance energy
Infrastructure
Controlled randomization to escape convergence deadlocks
The directional rate of change of a scalar field — substrate for hill-climbing, attention flow, and credit assignment
Information-theoretic dependence between two variables
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