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  • sus@programming.devtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Chaos
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    2 个月前

    Think of a box with 4 particles a, b, c and d. If every particle is on the left side of the box, then there is only 1 way to divide them up. [(a, b, c, d), ()]

    If there are 2 particles on the left side of the box and 2 particles on the right side of the box, then there are 6 ways to divide them up:

    [(a, b), (c, d)]
    [(a, c), (b, d)]
    [(a, d), (b, c)]
    [(b, c), (a, d)]
    [(b, d), (a, c)]
    [(c, d), (a, b)]

    In total you’ve got 16 possible arrangements, the 2-2 state has the “highest” entropy because you’re more likely to end up with the one that takes up 6/16 arrangements.













  • Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.

    The actual number is closer to 9% than 99%. This is probably some kind of mutation from “the combined wealth of billionaires is larger than the GDP of 99% of countries” where notably yearly income and wealth are not directly comparable.

    Better (and true) things to say are “The global top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% combined” or “The richest 0.01% in the US have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, while 90% of people have been treading water”