entropy
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- noun
- /ˈɛntrəpi/
- Specialized
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entropía
- The MEEM tracker employs multiple SVM classifiers with different learning rates and uses an entropy measure to fuse all the outputs from multiple classifiers.
- maximum entropy
- entropy measure
- information entropy
That's that's the maximum entropy right in the background distribution.
- That's that's the maximum entropy right in the background distribution.
- It would be extraordinarily strange if they had an entropy, but they did not store information.
- And then they can, they just, they contribute noise and entropy into everything and they bloat stuff.
Examples
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The results obtained indicate a clear difference between the pieces generated with high and low entropy.
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Generally, throughput performance of the bilevel-image arithmetic coders decreased as image entropy increased.
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Images with more noise contain more entropy and thus more space to store.
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The entropy thus also provides a measure of the information stored in a system.
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But recall that the maximum entropy for a system limits the maximum information that can be stored in it.
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Let's try to guess what the entropy of a vibrating string is.
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And the entropy is in turn the log of the number of of possible microstates.
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In the Science paper, the team assessed the script using a measure called conditional entropy.
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Entropy values of .80, .60, and .40 indicate high, medium, and low class separation.
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In information theory, high entropy signifies that the messages are less predictable and contain more information.
Synonyms
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How much a message reduces your surprise about an outcome
Antonyms
Compounds
How Uncertain
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Etymology
Entropy comes from Greek parts en- 'in' and tropē 'turning'. In information theory, this 'turning' idea helps: entropy measures how uncertain or surprising a message is, so more entropy means more randomness and less predictability.