{"id":190496,"date":"2026-11-03T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=190496"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:46:22","slug":"a-note-on-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-note-on-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"A note on entropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy-640x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-190497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy-640x498.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy-1024x796.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy-768x597.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/entropy.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themcchuck.blogspot.com\/2026\/10\/entropy-doesnt-have-to-be-confusing.html\" target=\"_blank\">McChuck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Jackson Pollock made a thousand of his infamous paintings, they\u2019d all look very similar to each other.  They are high entropy.  But you can instantly tell each Rembrandt from all the others.  They are low entropy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McChuck: If Jackson Pollock made a thousand of his infamous paintings, they\u2019d all look very similar to each other. They are high entropy. But you can instantly tell each Rembrandt from all the others. They are low entropy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,711],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-fake-art"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Nyw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190498,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496\/revisions\/190498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}