Monday, August 28, 2017

Information theory in the news

I shall be blunt.

Information quants are a mathematical construct designed to obey channel queuing theory. The reality Shannon was solving was the queuing of charge in a confined channel. It is a part of queuing theory that Shannon discovered, or another way to put it, sphere packing. Information quants were fake constructs designed to represent queued up charge.

In economics, Jason Smith has his book out, and folks are still talking about emergent gravity.  Jason's book is about the optimum queuing of goodies in a goodie channel, and the emergent gravity folks are all about queuing up the tiniest chunk of vacuum.  Nothing really has any information about anything, there is no such thing.

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