Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics.

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Yaroslav Tykhiy 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +00:00
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@ -6630,6 +6630,13 @@ Hacker: So call it 'previous'.
And then the CS Student was enlightened.
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A computer science student on an exam:
According to Shannon, information has entropy. Entropy is just
a mathematical trick to introduce temperature. Consequently,
information has temperature. Hence there are hot news and cool
news.
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A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
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A computer, to print out a fact,