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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • There must be a minimum non-zero amount of energy required for a given quantity of information.

    Okay, but I still don’t get how that leads to a standardized measure of energy/mass for a given amount of bytes. That seems to be the premise of the comic.

    information has mass independent of its physical representation.

    So what is the mass of a byte of ‘pure’ information? And how do you derive it?








  • This phrasing always bothers me a little, because, as even the article quotes a scientist saying: “All colors are made up by the brain.”

    Purple is special because it triggers from non-continuous wavelengths of light, not because the subjective experience of purple is an invention of the brain. Being ‘invented’ is something common to all colors. Or sounds. Or tastes.