What Your Lawn is Trying to Become - by Anthony Lackey

https://notesontheentropyofform.substack.com/p/what-your-lawn-is-trying-to-become?triedRedirect=true #naturalsystems #entropy

(PDF) Economies Evolve by Energy Dispersal

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38104807_Economies_Evolve_by_Energy_Dispersal #entropy #MEPP

<< Tl;dr diminishing returns accompany all movement, including economies (as well as ecologies and biological entities). What goes up must come down, usually faster.

Entropy and Entropy Production: Old Misconceptions and New Breakthroughs

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1152 #Entropy #MEPP

One of my favourite scientific anecdotes. Equal parts genius, wisdom, and humour. 📚✨

#Neumann #Claude #VonNeumann #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #Anecdote #ScientificAnecdote #Entropy #InformationEntropy #InformationTheory

v hyperrealitě dochází k PARADOXNÍ INTERFERENCI: nadbytek informací (redundance) generuje absolutní ztrátu smyslu - nejistotu - entropii

#hyperreality #paradoxinterference #redundancy #entropy

season of drought

It is so dry now, my desiccated friend

spits in the bowl of his pipe before applying

flame to its bitter balm, seeking kind of balance.



We tread on rustling mulch to study rustling leaves,

folded in desperate prayer, of what will surely be,

still, next year, an orchard and a kitchen garden



if -- large if -- the well does not run dry.

Everywhere flit wasps, sipping at beetles'

abdomens, having small aphids for dessert.



The birds have capped their singing, panting in

small shade. "Ninety, ninety, ninety-three and ninety,

ninety-seven today, and ninety yet



for all the week ahead, with this drying wind.

Don't you think things are getting out of hand?"

I ask him. He blows a little rueful smoke



but makes no answer. I anyway know from long

acquaintance his position: "there is a law,

and you and I and all these aching things



can never break it." It's that second law

of course, the one that is the silence heard

after all laughter, after songs and tears.



Soon a moon will rise, grand, red,

dressed in soot from a dozen cackling fires.


-- shonin #poetry #drought #climate #entropy (written circa 2015)

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/kv-entropy-coder/

#HackerNews #KVcoding #losslesscompression #caching #technology #entropy