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author | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +0000 |
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committer | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +0000 |
commit | 7d3d18d907337f6f78e665a6e87ad183892db3c8 (patch) | |
tree | 17e9b066af0dc4feae9a3881d401d0398f25fba4 /games/fortune | |
parent | e73c425f780621cebce689e03f51ee7c96dd7c47 (diff) | |
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Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics.
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 993a6a2..b3bdcbd 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -6630,6 +6630,13 @@ Hacker: So call it 'previous'. And then the CS Student was enlightened. % +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. +% A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken. % A computer, to print out a fact, |