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> Entropy
Right, without the 'h', of course.
> Entropy of an information stream relates not to "unnecessary slime", but on the contrary to the information density (if the stream is intellegible).
Yeah, got my lines crossed there - I think I get you. The amount of randomness determines the amount of information, right? So paradoxically, the more 'messy' a signal is, the more information it can/does carry. Entropy measures this randomness or propensity towards information carrying - which seems really odd because in thermodynamics you think of an increasingly sparse situation.
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