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Has the von Neumann entropy ever been used in classical mechanics?
After going through an application of the von Neumann entropy(from quantum information theory) to certain problems in computational neuroscience [2], it occurred to me that this entropy might have ...
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Revisiting the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
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On balance, with theoretical advances in algorithmic information theory and Quantum Computation it appears that the remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is quite ...
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A necessary condition for differential entropy to be finite
An ensemble corresponding to a probability distribution usually has finite free energy so it is not a great loss of generality to assume that the ensemble also has finite energy in following ...
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Turing machines and Ising model
I have currently started a new research line aiming to prove a mapping between a 2-symbol Turing machine and the one dimensional Ising model. The connection is seen by recognizing that a set of ...
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