[FRIAM] Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics

My google news feed is generally infuriating, but then it redeems itself by finding something like this: Jonathan Asher Pachter, Ying-Jen Yang, and Ken A. Dill, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00720-5, in Nature Reviews Physics. Statistical physics relates the properties of macroscale

Re: [FRIAM] Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics

Thanks Roger, Yes, Dill is very good. He’s not one of the flashy ones, like, e.g. Peter Wolynes or some of the other high-profile Names. He has a solid kind of workman-like style, but he knows a wide variety of foundation methods, including some of the difficult ones like glass methods. The