Simon DeDeo’s hand drawn notes for entropy class

From the Notes Vault

Source: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/lecture1_dedeo_csss_2010.pdf

Entropy is a measure of a system’s:

• Disorder
• Information
• Information carrying capacity
• Uncertainty
• Diversity

Entropy is also PHYSICAL. You can look up entropies of different substances.

“Water is just ice where the molecules are allowed to occupy the interstitial sites”