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j_chance

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    Comment #44969613

    Ok this took some time to think about. I've always conflated entropy and randomness/data, but this is wrong. Say that i sample 512 bytes of data from an entropy source. That data i…

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    Comment #44951703

    Thanks! > Existential reality is not made up of information > Potential and potential resolving (true entropy) is the underlying phenomenon not state (information). I think this le…

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    Solving `Ax=b` is easy if `x` can be any value. But if you bound `x` such that all entries must be small (e.g. only zeroes and ones) then the problem is hard: https://en.wikipedia.…