From 7d3d18d907337f6f78e665a6e87ad183892db3c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yar Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:05:14 +0000 Subject: Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics. --- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'games') 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, -- cgit v1.1