Richard S O'Rourke

thermodynamics · cybernetics · political economy

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Topic

Entropy & information

Thermodynamics · Cybernetics

Writing

  • Ashby's Variety & Shannon's Entropy - A History

    Shannon, Bourbaki and his journal: where Ashby's variety came from

    7 October 2026

  • Ashby's Variety & Shannon's Entropy

    Variety, entropy, information, and the regulator as a correction channel

    30 September 2026

  • Call it entropy...no one knows what entropy really is.

    A limit accepted, and the law of requisite variety

    30 September 2026