Lockless algorithms for mere mortals

Posted Jul 29, 2020 9:02 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Lockless algorithms for mere mortals by Wol
Parent article: Lockless algorithms for mere mortals

> DEFINE ENTROPY
Easy. It's the number of microstates of a system. There are other ways to re-formulate this definition, but they are equivalent to each other.

Lockless algorithms for mere mortals

Posted Jul 29, 2020 11:18 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

How come those two states were equally plausible but different?

Mind you, your definition looks like the new version "information == entropy".

Cheers,
Wol

Lockless algorithms for mere mortals

Posted Jul 29, 2020 16:28 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

It's not information per se. Entropy is simply the measure of the number of microstates of a system, and that's all it is.