niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

I don't think celebrities should be allowed to post. it should just be for us peasants

Something big happened this weekend. Everyone is talking about it. Many are feeling a new sense of hope.

That's right: I finished writing my new book "What is Entropy?" It's just 120 pages long. It has a lot of sections, mostly one page each, each based on a tweet. This is just a draft, and I'm still fixing typos and other mistakes. So grab a copy - and if you catch errors, please let me know, either here or on my blog!

It is not a pop book: it's an introduction that assumes you know calculus. But it's about a lot of big, bold concepts, and I try to really get to the bottom of them:

• information
• Shannon entropy and Gibbs entropy
• the principle of maximum entropy
• the Boltzmann distribution
• temperature and coolness
• the relation between entropy, expected energy and temperature
• the equipartition theorem
• the partition function
• the relation between entropy, free energy and expected energy
• the entropy of a classical harmonic oscillator
• the entropy of a classical particle in a box
• the entropy of a classical ideal gas

I learned a lot by trying to explain in words what people often say only with equations.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/what-is-entropy/

while making a shitpost i found a version of the fourth bodhisattva vow that goes “the buddha way is unattainable; i vow to attain it”. that goes hard tbh.

@nyx In the 9/11 myth, a phallic tool (the plane) is used for destruction of a phallic object (the towers, the epitome of masculine architecture), where in the crucifixion myth, a phallic tool (the spear) is used to *create* a yonic object (the side wound). The metaphorical vagina forced upon Jesus, as in the same way reproduction was forced on Eve by Adam.

And so in my opinion a more fitting analogy would be to say that the crucifixion was like Christianity's Hiroshima. And what came three days after Hiroshima? That's right, the fat man was used on Nagasaki. The analogy to Easter is obvious.

A deconstructionist author makes a typo. Looks at the page and says, "eh, what's the differance?"