What's an intuitive way to understand entropy? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Mark ...

If you’ve written a great library to generate random numbers with a microcontroller, what’s the first thing you would do? Build an electronic pair of dice, of course. [Walter] created the entropy ...

Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: Entropy, a tendency generally described as "disorder." Researchers trying to herd tiny particles ...