The API gets choked, the workflow gets backed up, the status monitors start to lag. OUCH. Even worse, some customers start undoing their changes because they don't see them happening quickly. Now we have pointless changes stuck in the system that no-one even wants!! OUCH OUCH.
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And it turns out at a low level they are the same too! Information theoretical entropy, which is all about computability and bits, can be related to thermodynamic entropy, which is all about energy and work!
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How? Well Maxwell proposed a thought experiment that showed a problem with thermodynamics. He imagined two rooms side by side, at even temperatures. He posited that a daemon, a ghost, could open a door between the two rooms and let faster moving molecules over to one side.
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This sort of disproved existing thermodynamics, because the work it takes to open a door like that is less than the energy transferred due to the faster molecules changing sides. This was unresolved for a long time ... UNTIL ...
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A bunch of folks showed that you don't just open the door, you have to observe and predict, and therefore COMPUTE, the position of the molecule. THIS TAKES ENERGY ... and they showed that the energy it takes is at least equivalent to the difference.
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So in a big old nuts, strange-loop sort of way, these completely unrelated things are totally the same at both a MACRO and MICRO level. This blows my mind .... but may also make no sense ;-)
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O.k. that's it, and AMA if you want! Oh and
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