Entropy in a sentence as a noun

Thus the entropy would increase if you removed energy.

Well, that's where you need to mix in other sources of randomness into the entropy pool.

I remember, at the turn of the millennium, when lava lamps were actually used to produce entropy.

It seems like a device that has a radio antenna inside it has no excuse for ever running out of entropy.

The temperature of a system says something about how much the entropy increases as you add energy.

We don't need a human enemy to have conflict and to inspire us to greatness; primordial entropy is our enemy.

A back door would take one of two forms: either it'd smuggle a copy of the key somewhere, or it'd lower the key's entropy enough to be crackable.

In the case of a consumer grade wireless router, it could sniff the network for a while and use packet inter-arrival times and mix that into the entropy pool.

" The entropy modeling allows Zopfil to estimate the effectiveness of a given approach to deflate.

But with only a few random bits of cosmic entropy set differently, the creator could create exactly the same content, fail to get those first 3-5 votes, and the number of views on the article/app/etc.

We still use it for certain entropy sources, most notably for the keyboard and mouse inputs, where it is useful for filtering out event timings caused by the user leaning on the key and triggering autorepeat.

The real problem with publishing images and videos anonymously is that those media files often contain lots of entropy that could help identify the author, such as location information.

More generally, bicycles, like other industrial machinery, are allergic to entropy.

Things like making sure we have adequate entropy collection on all platforms, especially embedded ones, and adding some conservatism just in case SHA isn't a perfect random function are some of the other things which I am trying to balance as we make changes to /dev/random.

It was a dumb software bug introduced by refactoring, with catastrophic consequences -- but not inherently different from accidentally zeroing a password buffer before being finished with it, or failing to check for errors when reading entropy from /dev/random.

Language extension usually works this way: a previously unambiguously wrong statement is made valid; but JS semicolon insertion often turns "wrong" statements into "correct" statements, so it leaves less "entropy" to be taken advantage of when increasing the power of the syntax.

Reddit is a very obvious one, but the same holds to for trying to get press interest: so much depends upon the decisions of a few key journalists, and that decision may depend on how many other emails hit their inbox that hour, or whether or not they've had their coffee yet, or some other particle of background entropy.

This means that we will continue to collect entropy even if the input pool is apparently "full".This is critical, because secondly their hypothetical attacks presume certain input distributions which have an incorrect entropy estimate --- that is, either zero actual entropy but a high entropy estimate, or a high entropy, but a low entropy estimate.

Entropy definitions

noun

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"

See also: information

noun

(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity"

See also: randomness