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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The entropy of an undetermined bit is higher than that of a bit with a known value Entropy yes, mass no. Entropy has no relation to mass.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It takes energy to lower entropy in part of a system (while increasing it elsewhere, so the total entropy of the system is non-decreasing), e.g. in an air-conditioner. In this sense, the act of data storage requires energy. That's not data storage; it is a change of state, yes, but not information you're storing. The state of a mass, including its sub-nuclear properties, is data, yes; but not information. The fact that information requires energy to store, doesn't make information/data to have mass nor energy.
That's why I mentioned that all subnuclear particles weight and direction is "data"; doesn't matter what their weight is, nor what they are accelerated to; doesn't change the amount of data. That's not information though, and ordering it to our likes changes state that costs energy, yes; but that is not a cost of information storage, just a cost of changing state.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It is possible to use the temperature differential between a cool room and the hot outside to generate energy Again, doing as if a change of state and a change in data equals a change in information. It doesn't. You may generate energy (which would cost something else), but that says nothing about the weight of information.
Let me explain it different; information is merely human perception, all else is data. Information itself doesn't have mass, and you can't increase the weight of wood by writing on it (apart from the weight of the ink).
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Information - the new weapon of mass destruction.
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"Is there something wrong with Earth's gravity in future?"
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If fifteen men pissing in a circle, that is information, including the landing of the piss, its velocity, angle, volume and both smell and taste.
This article tries to explain how that data equals information and hence, mass. Not observed data is not information, and changing state of something requires energy yes, but does not give mass to an abstract idea called "information". Changing state requires energy, but information is merely a human concept of ordering those states.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We build homes out of bricks for lots of reasons. Not going to replace the brick that came with my laptop for a while
Going to get corrected on my math, but it looks like a 1200 sqft house would be able to store about 0.5kWh? Yay?
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Quote: “Bricks are so special to humans. We live in them, we’re always interacting with them,” he said. “We just want to improve them.”
Why does something always have to be "improved?"
From Energy storing bricks for stationary PEDOT supercapacitors | Nature Communications[^]
Quote: Here, we develop a supercapacitor using a brick’s hematite microstructure as reactant to vapor-deposit a nanofibrillar coating of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT).
Right. Like I want to live in a house where the walls are coated with a chemical I can't even pronounce.
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I’ve got an oddly satisfying feeling when I think of rewriting code from scratch. Making new bugs is better than fixing old ones
(Microsoft's new motto)
((Google doesn't bother either - they just cancel the program))
(((Apple just tells you that's what the designers intended)))
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Penetration testers share common security failings that leave companies vulnerable to attack. Being connected to a network, and being powered on?
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I thought that if you leave your door open is not breaking in
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I don't want my account closed, so I have nothing to say about this headline.
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Despite the hype, less than 10% of companies deploy artificial intelligence at work, thanks to the low AI adoption rate of smaller firms. Most enterprises are still trying to find the natural kind
Stick a pin in the paradigm shift and see who salutes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Most enterprises are still trying to find the natural kind Are you sure? Looking at how some managers act, I would say they are quite good at frightening the hell out of intelligent people...
This kind of remind me that T-Shirt:
Quote: Intelligence pursues me, but I am faster
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Despite the hype, less than 10% of companies have figured out how to claim their existing solution uses AI.
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AddressSanitizer was designed by Google to improve memory safety in programs by identifying violations. I was surprised it's not for cleaning naughty words out of street names
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First adopt chromium in edge,
now adopting add-ins from google in visual studio...
I suppose that with all the manpower busy creating the supermegahyper functionality to insert emojis they need to get the things that work from other places.
I only hope that it doesn't introduce a new level of telemetry in the source codes.
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Nelek wrote: I only hope that it doesn't introduce a new level of telemetry in the source codes.
No. It won't. Create just one new level... The boys at Google are professionals...
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With Windows 10 Build 20185, Microsoft has added a new panel that will let you insert emoji, GIFs, and even clipboard content. The one Windows feature everyone has been clamoring for - the ability to paste emoji
:eyeroll:
Glad they got all those bug fixes in.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: :eyeroll: you wrote it wrong
or did you install the preview version and tried to paste it with the new function?
Kent Sharkey wrote: Glad they got all those bug fixes in. That's why they are introducing new ones with those non-sense functionalities... so that people don't think they do nothing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: :eyeroll:
Didn't you mean?
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Demand for software developers and cloud jobs starts to grow again. But businesses are looking for a different set of skills. They want more photogenic devs for their Zoom calls?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They want more photogenic devs for their Zoom calls? At least enough neurons to join them dressed and to remember that they are being seen too...
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The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is currently out of commission after a thick support cable fell onto the dish, creating a large gash. Or that's what *they* want you to think
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All that mess just because of a cable?
What would have happened if they had used a string instead?
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Bond, James Bond. "Oops, sorry about that, chaps!"
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