Time series analysis forms an essential part of modern data science by examining sequential data to unravel the underlying dynamics of complex systems. In particular, entropy-based measures quantify ...

Graduate seminar, Fall 2008. Open to graduate students only. Adam Elga (follow link for contact information, office hour). Class meeting time: Mondays 10:00am-12:50pm. Location: Marx Hall 201 Seminar ...

Accuracy may come at a cost. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What’s the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has ...

For a technical scientific term, entropy is pretty popular. I mean, it was the title of an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after all. Search the Internet for “entropy” quotes and you’ll find them ...

At the quantum scale, systems do not exist in isolation. They interact, exchange information, and become correlated with one ...

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

(via PBS Space Time) Entropy is surely one of the most perplexing concepts in physics. It’s variously described as a measure of a system’s disorder - or as the amount of useful work that you can get ...

Can a demon defeat the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? The second law of thermodynamics – the law that entropy must, on average, increase – has been interpreted as the inevitability of the decay of ...