21. E N T R O P Y * G R A D I E N T * R E V E R S A L S entropy Gradient Reversals is dedicated to the very best in art and culture and to the immediate destruction of those values wherever possible. http://www.rageboy.com/

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23. If ( 1 + 1 == 1 ) { E8z = True; }; entropy8zuper! makes digital environments for people emotional, engaging, entertaining. Information technology is not the future. We are. http://entropy8zuper.org/

24. Entropy Explained Explanation of entropy and how it is hopelessly misunderstood by creationists and sometimes even some of their opponents. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/entropy.html

TEST Library Modern Richard Carrier Bad Science, Worse Philosophy : Entropy Explained Entropy Explained (2003, 2005) Richard Carrier Addendum A to "Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster's The Philosophical Scientists" (2000) Introduction The concept of entropy is generally not well understood among laymen. With the help of several physicists, including Wolfgang Gasser and Malcolm Schreiber, I have composed the following article in an attempt to correct a common misunderstanding.[ ] Contrary to what many laymen think, there is no Law of Entropy which states that order must always decrease. That is a layman's fiction, although born from a small kernel of reality. The actual Law of Entropy is better known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The First Law is that energy is not created or destroyed, and the Third Law is that absolute zero cannot be achievedeach of these laws is actually entailed from the first, in conjunction with certain other assumptions. But it is the Second Law that many laymen incorrectly think says that order must always decrease. In traditional thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of the amount of energy in a closed system that is no longer available to effect changes in that system. A system is closed when no energy is being added to or removed from it, and energy becomes unavailable not by leaving the system, but by becoming irretrievably disordered, as a consequence of the laws of statistical mechanics. But even though the total amount of energy that is irretrievably disordered will increase, this does not mean order cannot increase somewhere else in that same system. This is where confusion arises. Of course, entropy can be measured in an open system, too, but this introduces additional variables, and of course the Second Law then no longer applies. But even when the Second Law applies, it is still possible for a closed system to produce order, even highly elaborate order, so long as there is a greater increase in disorder somewhere else in the system.

25. Entropy It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is http://www.7stones.com/Homepage/Publisher/entropy.html

Back to Contents. The light blue square is 300x300 pixels - 90,000 pixels total. Each pixel can exist in one of two states, light blue, or dark blue (the dark blue square is just the dual of the light blue). Each time cycle a single pixel will switch states. Once the square has changed from its initial state (all pixels light blue - very low probability state), it is virtually impossible that it will ever spontaneously revert. Most states are in the roughly 50-50 region (ie., 50% light blue, and 50% dark). These high probability states have the highest entropy. It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a low probability state. This is somewhat analogous to adding heat (Q) to an ideal gas kept at a constant volume. Adding heat raises the temperature. At any given moment the increase in entropy, dS, due to added heat, dQ, is dS = dQ/T. So (dS/dt) = (dQ/dt)/T. If the rate that heat is added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is highest when T is smallest. At constant volume, dQ/T is proportional to dQ/Q, the fractional increase

26. Entropy It used to be a channel found in Battlenet East founded by Physician (aka entropy), Eoe_mime and Sagoter. We either meet in entropy or OP entropy. http://entropyzero.org/

@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); "We Few Still Fear the Fog" My heart races and my soul fills with shear obsidian fear as the fog of war envelopes me..oh lord what a wonderful feeling, I can hear the sounds of battle again... What is Entropy? Why is it called Entropy? It's a meeting place of Broodwar gamers like many other communities or channels. People tend to hang around a community or a channel for a while and become organized for a given period by playing together, learning, making friends etc. Then as time passes and the forces of entropy occur, people gradually move on to other channels or move on in life and the disorganization of these associations prevail. What are Cohesion forces responsible for the channel's existence? The main force of cohesion in entropy is the worship of the Fog of War. Everyone in entropy has a healthy paranoia against hackers. Even after many years of building a reputation as a Fog of War worshiper you will find that your game will always be scrutinized for signs of hacking. If you are caught hacking prepare for public humiliation. However like any group of worshipers they will always try to convert hackers to become Fog of War worshipers. They forgive but never forget. The other force of cohesion is a passion for non money random maps. No one in entropy plays money maps and all dribble at the thought of playing a new unknown balanced map where the fog can be felt strongest.

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Contact us Site map Help Business Standards Magazine BSI BSI Group BSI British Standards BSI Management Systems BSI Product Services Products Solutions Partners Support ... Find out more Integrated Management Systems Looking for an integrated management system for ISO 14001 OHSAS 18001 , and/or ISO 9001 standards . Don't miss out on the benefits of an integrated management systems approach. Supply Chain Compliance Is your brand at risk because of poor social and ethical compliance in your supply chain corporate risk associated with these compliance issues. Don't wait until your supply chain damages your brand. Workflow Solutions Do you need to ensure compliance, reduce incidents, or improve management system effectiveness but not necessarily certify to a standard at this time? Use to improve auditing and compliance incident management metrics collection and more. Find out more Find out more Find out more Highlights In the News Links in the chain Read the Business Standards article about the ethical supply chain. More about Events Webinar: Stay Tuned for more Webinars in 2008 Entropy Software is composed of five key workflows . These workflows function independently for targeted issues or as an integrated whole providing a full management system suite. Incident Management Performance Management Risk Management Knowledge Management Related Items Customers Products Solutions Contact Us Our offices and contact numbers Getting Started Legal notice Accessibility policy

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Welcome to State of Entropy Webgraphics. I designed this site to makelife easier for people putting together their own personal homepages. Hereyou'll learn how to make your own webgraphics using the powerful and inexpensivegraphics program called Paint Shop Pro. All of the original graphics onthis site were prepared using this amazing program. Paint Shop Pro is currentlyin Version 7.04, and has more features than ever, including some greatnew photo enhancement tools. You can download a 30 day Trial versionof this program at the homepage of JascSoftware This site utilizes frames for navigation purposes. It appears that your browser does not support frames. To fully utilize this site you will need to update your browser. For your convenience, the rest of the main page of my website, including all of the links to my tutorials, is duplicated below. This site contains tutorials for PSP 4, 5, 6, and 7 as well as presetsand tutorials for the BladePro plugin. The PSP 5 tutorials are fairly compatible with PSP 6, andany necessary adjustments have been noted in the text. The old PSP 4 tutorials,however, have been completely updated where possible, and are listed withthose for PSP 5. For those of you still using PSP 4, the originalversions are still available below. The Blade Pro tutorials have been designedand written for use with PSP 5 and 6. I hope to update all of my tutorialsto PSP 7 as soon as possible. The Camera As promised, here is the full layered PSP file for my camera image.Click

29. What Is Entropy? But it should be remembered that entropy, an idea born from classical thermodynamics, is a quantitative entity, and not a qualitative one. http://www.tim-thompson.com/entropy1.html

The Definitions of Entropy The Definitions of Entropy Introduction: Entropy Defined Is Entropy a Measure of "Disorder"? Introduction: Entropy Defined entropy is what the equations define it to be . There is no such thing as an "entropy", without an equation that defines it. Entropy was born as a state variable in classical thermodynamics. But the advent of statistical mechanics in the late 1800's created a new look for entropy. It did not take long for Claude Shannon to borrow the Boltzmann-Gibbs formulation of entropy, for use in his own work, inventing much of what we now call information theory Entropy and Classical Thermodynamics Classical thermodynamics developed during the 19th century, its primary architects being Sadi Carnot Rudolph Clausius Benoit Claperyon James Clerk Maxwell , and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) . But it was Clausius who first explicitly advanced the idea of entropy On Different Forms of the Fundamental Equations of the Mechanical Theory of Heat The Mechanical Theory of Heat , 1867). The concept was expanded upon by Maxwell (

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31. De La Mancha entropy is a 3 osc subtractive synth with a set of pitch randomising mono entropy is 6 voice polyphonic, but to save CPU you can make it monophonic http://www.delamancha.co.uk/entropy.htm

entropy is a 3 osc subtractive synth with a set of pitch randomising options to generate melodies all on it's ownsome - change pitch of each oscillator on a tempo sync'd timescale to random pitch value - maximum change +/- value is adjustable - blip pitch of each oscillator at random intervals to random pitch value - pitch change and blip can be quantized to nearest x semitones - blip has adjustable probability - blip maximum +/- value adjustable, duration adjustable in seconds - route any/all oscillators to state variable filter - route any/all oscillators and/or filter output to flanger - blip flanger rate at random intervals to random value - all randomising can be seeded and looped on 1 to 32 bar cycle - each randomised parameter has a different seed, set from one master seed - detune in octaves, semitones and cents - adsr volume envelope - mono/polyphonic switch with adjustable portamento Download zip file (1.3 MB) Controls seed - sets a repeatable seed value so all randomising is repeatable each time you play the track. each of the change/blip controls uses a unique seed value by multiplying the master seed value by it's own factor. This way, the values and timing are different for each control. set seed to to switch off and have no repeatability.

32. Entropy (physics) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on entropy the measure of a system s thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9032727/entropy

document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: entropy physics Main work . Because work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder, or randomness, of a system. The concept of entropy provides deep insight into the direction of spontaneous change for many everyday phenomena. Its introduction by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius in 1850 is a highlight of 19th-century physics. The idea of entropy provides a mathematical way to encode the intuitive notion of which processes are impossible, even though they would not violate the fundamental law of conservation of energy . For example, a block of ice placed on a hot stove surely melts, while the stove grows cooler. Such a process is called irreversible because no slight change will cause the melted water to turn back into ice while the stove grows hotter. In contrast, a block of ice placed in an ice-water bath will either thaw a little more or freeze a little more, depending on whether a small amount of heat is added to or subtracted from the system. Such a process is reversible because only an infinitesimal amount of heat is needed to change its direction from progressive freezing to progressive thawing. Similarly, compressed gas confined in a cylinder could either expand freely into the atmosphere if a valve were opened (an irreversible process), or it could do useful work by pushing a moveable piston against the force needed to confine the gas. The latter process is reversible because only a slight increase in the restraining force could reverse the direction of the process from expansion to compression. For reversible processes the system is in

33. Entropy First of all, let s see exactly why the increasing uncertainty of the velocities of the atoms doesn t create enough entropy to counteract the decreasing http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/entropy.html

Can Gravity Decrease Entropy? John Baez August 7, 2000 If you weren't careful, you might think gravity could violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Start with a bunch of gas in outer space. Suppose it's homogeneously distributed. If it's big enough, it will start clumping up thanks to its gravitational self-attraction. So starting from complete disorder, it looks like we're getting some order! Doesn't this mean that the entropy of the gas is dropping? Well, it's a bit trickier than you might think. First of all, you have to remember that a gas cloud heats up as it collapses gravitationally! The clumping means you know more and more about the positions of the atoms in the cloud. But the heating up means you know less and less about their velocities. So there are two competing effects. It's not obvious which one wins! Let's do a little calculation to see how this works. The trick is to keep things simple so we can easily see what's going on. This requires some idealizations. Entropy Calculation - Part 1 We'll assume a ball of some ideal gas with volume V and a total of N identical gas atoms in it. We assume these atoms interact only gravitationally, and we use Newtonian physics everywhere. We'll start out by assuming that the cloud is "virialized", meaning that the kinetic energy K and potential energy P are related by

34. Entropy entropy is a large scale photography project about Romania undertaken by Tudor Prisacariu. http://www.entropy.ro/

Entropy is a large scale photography project about Romania undertaken by Tudor Prisacariu in 2007. It is an attempt to achieve a better understanding of contemporary Romania and the complex transformation process that it is currently undergoing.

35. Entropyandthen, Entropy Catalyst Efficiency In Life Evolution Thermodynamic classification of life, and suggestions for possible applications in unified field theory. Provides descriptions of models, formulas, http://www.entropyandthen.net/

36. EGD: The Entropy Gathering Daemon EGD is an entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don t have this convenient source of random bits. http://egd.sourceforge.net/

EGD: The Entropy Gathering Daemon A userspace substitute for /dev/random, written in perl. One of the nice features of the Linux kernel (and certain *BSD kernels) is the /dev/random device. This is a little character device that gives you random numbers when you read it. In a variety of places scattered throughout the kernel, certain interrupts (network packets arriving, keyboard hits, mouse movement) cause a timestamp and some event information to be hashed into an "entropy pool". The pool, perhaps 4k in size, always contains very random data, but as bits are "stirred" in, a counter is incremented to reflect the fact that the poll is now even more random than before. When you read from /dev/random, you get a hashed portion of the pool, and the counter is decremented. This gives you high quality cryptographically strong random data. The Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), along with many other encryption routines (pgp, ssh, even the sequence-number selection algorithm used by the kernel's TCP stack), use this device to seed a secure random number generator. Encryption uses lots of random data, and hybrid public-key/ symmetric-cipher encryption uses even more. EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have this convenient source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool.

37. Entropy Production While photovoltaics are still beholden to the laws of thermodynamics and entropy, the difference still implies that they abide by difference rules. http://entropyproduction.blogspot.com/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=13900197"); Entropy Production Discussion regarding the art and science of creating holes of low entropy, shifting them around, and then filling them back up to operate some widget. 11 March 2008 Squestration in the Oil Sands Soooo.... last year the federal government of Canada introduced a bunch of new environmental programs . This year, they threw a lot of that out the window . Now we have a new environmental program: legislating projects that produce large quantities of carbon dioxide to employ sequestration . These large sources are coal plants and oil sands developments. The obvious loophole for everyone to observe is that it only applies to projects started after 2011 , and there's evidently no grandfathering. I'm not sure I believe whether they Conservative government actually intends to go through with this. Afterall, they are a minority government and while the opposition has no stomach for a new election, they aren't likely to last until 2011. The proof will really be in the activity in the oil patch. If they all rush to start projects before 2011 and have nothing scheduled after that, then maybe the Conservatives are actually serious. Another question that crosses my mind is the quantity of good sequestration locations in close proximity to the main oil sands patch by Fort McMurray. Alberta is, generally speaking, a big sedimentary basin but the Northeast portion of the province is somewhat different if my memory is correct.

38. Entropy Because we use the base2 logarithm, entropy has units of bits. For this definition to make sense, we must take special note of symbols having probability http://cnx.org/content/m0070/latest/

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39. Entropy Manor However things at entropy Manor are rather weird. It’s like I don’t recognize the place any more. The level of entropy is not only low, it is shockingly low http://www.entropymanor.com/

Entropy Manor The web site of a conservative geek living in Indianapolis, Indiana Time To Hang Up The Keyboard October 30th, 2007 Posted in General For Alli September 6th, 2007 Alli posed the following question in the comments of my previous post: So um. are you ever going to blog again? At least I had the decency to hang up my keyboard properly! And I want details on the big day!! As to details about the wedding, that will have to wait a little while. I have work to do. But I will get to your request ASAP Alli. Posted in General A Brief Post June 30th, 2007 I would like to take this opportunity to wish Hoosierboy a happy 23rd wedding anniversary. Methodist Church Posted in General Yes June 22nd, 2007 Nathan is back Posted in Blogging Comments Off Long Overdue Update June 8th, 2007 We now return you to your regularly scheduled chaos. Posted in General Comments Off Calling All Conservative Hoosier Bloggers May 27th, 2007 Since Nathan has decided to hang up his blog, I think that the time has come for us to look for some new conservative (or libertarian) bloggers to represent the fine state of Indiana in the Hoosier Blog Alliance. If you live or work in Indiana and would like to join us, please feel free to post a comment here that includes a link to your blog.

40. Entropy entropy. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Tori Amos. We went to a Tori Amos concert in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was awesome. http://s-mitchell.blogspot.com/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=21260852"); Entropy Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Tori Amos We went to a Tori Amos concert in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was awesome. posted by Scott Mitchell at 4:18 PM 3 comments Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Family Reunion A cool photo from a family reunion. posted by Scott Mitchell at 10:08 PM 1 comments Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7/7/7 Wedding posted by Scott Mitchell at 3:13 PM 0 comments Tuesday, July 03, 2007 New Wedding shot From a wedding on 7/3/07. posted by Scott Mitchell at 10:07 PM 0 comments Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Julian Beever A quick snap of a piece Julian Beever is working on at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, WV. You can see some of his other work here posted by Scott Mitchell at 12:26 PM 0 comments Tuesday, June 12, 2007 John Amos Power Plant A view of the John Amos Power Plant from an angle not everyone gets sees. posted by Scott Mitchell at 9:13 PM 0 comments Friday, April 20, 2007

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