Is the Information Entropy the Same as the Statistical Mechanical Entropy? · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1209.5500/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTIs the Information Entropy the Same as the Statistical Mechanical Entropy? — mentioned by kgwgkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164546urn:hackerpapers:mention:1209.5500:15164546Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:21:28 GMT<p>&gt; the connection between information theoretic entropy and physical entropy Has been a subject of interest for the last six decades, from http://compbio.biosci.uq.edu.au/mediawiki/upload/b/b3/Jaynes... to https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.260... or https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5500 to give some examples.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1209.5500/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mech