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		kgwgk on Oct 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding Shannon's Entropy metric for Informa... The disorder analogy can be misleading in some cases: http://entropysite.oxy.edu/cracked_crutch.html

dr_dshiv on Oct 8, 2021 [–]

Yes, that’s while I don’t frame as disorder but rather explain order in terms of the micro state-macro state relation. While a built lego set and a crystal are well ordered and have low entropy, order and entropy aren’t the same thing.

kgwgk on Oct 8, 2021 | [–]

> very ordered things (crystals) have low entropy

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