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I'm meaning the term "information entropy". Both of those words are generally used interchangeably to mean the same thing (to include the different forms of entropy, as I understand it. :')))) ) <3 :'))))


Oh, no I was talking about ex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(classical_thermodyn...

There's other kinds of 'entropy' that have distinct lineages and contexts than 'information entropy', but information is kind of the basis for everything physically so if you squint a bit you can make any non-information entropy look like information entropy


Yes that's where the term came from. They're (effectively) the same thing as I understand it.




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