How to Use entropy in a Sentence

entropy

noun
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  • One is that, except for a few edge cases, semantic entropy caught more false answers than any other methods.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
  • One bulwark of information theory is the notion of entropy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Every day was joyful battle, against entropy — the chaos that threatens to unravel every human endeavor.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
  • Farquhar has some ideas for how semantic entropy could begin reducing hallucinations in leading chatbots.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 19 June 2024
  • With Young and Browne, there’s a sense of entropy in those songs.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The events of 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the first kind of era and the onset of a new age of entropy and chaos.
    — David Kaiser, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And it’s based off of the level lamp entropy from Cloudflare.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
  • That flaw is entropy, which builds up as a universe bounces.
    — James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • The higher the entropy of a word, the higher the information gain.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The degree to which a system has no pattern is known as entropy.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The idea was to calculate the entropy in a different way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
  • And the answer is exponentially large in the entropy of the black hole.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • What’s the best way to understand entropy in this black hole context?
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Coffee gets cold for a reason, and that reason is called entropy.
    — Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In this case, the entropy is proportional to the three-dimensional volume of the box, not the area.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The best-case scenario for a pro gamer still involves a lot of entropy, so for now, Bang intends to keep his options open.
    — Luke Winkie, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Contrast this with the entropy of a more traditional system—say, a gas in a box.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Alice thinks that Bob does not support 16 bytes of entropy and accepts 1 byte.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Maxwell had created a system that appeared to defy the rise of entropy, and thus the laws of the universe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The most likely arrangement of atoms has the highest entropy.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This may sound wonderful to you, but being the sole source of entropy in a closed system gets haunting at 2 a.m.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • This hints at the importance of entropy, which in rough terms is a measure of disorder.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
    — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2018
  • These changes in power are producing a world marked by entropy.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The stone is also inscribed with one of Hawking's equations describing the entropy of a black hole.
    — NBC News, 15 June 2018
  • The place had the slightest touch of Grey Gardens to it, though without the unapologetic embrace of entropy.
    — James McAuley, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
  • So black holes must also have entropy, and Hawking was the first to calculate that entropy.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But most of that is wasted by the warm parts radiating their heat to the cold parts, creating entropy.
    — Emy Rodriguez Flores, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Or do the people of Waco just deal with it, accept it as the inevitable flow of all things, not so much entropy as evolution?
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 10 July 2017
  • And that’s the puzzle about thermodynamics and entropy and so on.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2017

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