Tuesday, July 12, 2011

tig ol' "bit"ties

Yesterday's lesson was definitely the most appealing one we have had so far to me.  I like how we opened up with the idea of information, and how many people can interpret it differently.  The dictionary definition of information is a measure of uncertainty or what we need to resolve uncertainty.  I thought this was interesting because this means all of mankind learns or takes actions on things based on curiosity and or urge to know more than what our eyes can see.  I also liked the theme that any type of order or organization will inevitably end up in chaos or entropy, cause that can be applied to any type of situation in life, even something as simple as cleaning your room.  Binary code is also something that has always intrigued me - that something as simple as a order of zeros and ones can create its own complex language.  Last but not least, the fact that energy is always constant but we can change its quality or quantity gives humans a lot of power within thermodynamics.

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