AI is just a tool to help you do your job, like an IDE, or stackoverflow, why do you have so much antipathy towards it?

apparently Seattleites have more sense

are these Russian bots in the room with us right now

can't say it was doing the planet much good in any case

no thanks

Information entropy is literally the strict lower bound on how efficiently information can be communicated (expected number of transmitted bits) if the probability distribution which generates this information is known, that's it. Even in contexts such as calculating the information entropy of a bit string, or the English language, you're just taking this data and constructing some empirical probability distribution from it using the relative frequencies of zeros and ones or letters or n-grams or whatever, and then calculating the entropy of that distribution.

I can't say I'm overly fond of Baez's definition, but far be it from me to question someone of his stature.

The disinformation landscape of this conflict is insane. This article paints a decidedly optimistic picture, however I fear the reality is far more bleak.

Unreliable casualty numbers aside, Russia simply has way more men, and can eventually attrite Ukraine into a demographic death spiral. Indeed, with the exodus of ~20% of its population since the start of the war, this demographic trajectory may now be inexorable. Eastern Ukraine, where much of the most fertile land is, and where most of the fighting has occurred, is now likely littered with bomb parts and unexploded ordinances, and the prospect of the jackals of the American arms industry turning it into a live weapons laboratory is particularly grim.