Bytepawn - Marton Trencseni

Probabilistic spin glass - Conclusion

Marton Trencseni - Mon 31 January 2022 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

I summarize the 5 previous posts on probabilistic spin glasses.

Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods - Part III

Marton Trencseni - Sat 22 January 2022 • Tagged with wordle, monte-carlo

I present a simple Monte Carlo solution which finds a 25-letter-unique Worlde wordlist in about 10 minutes.

Wordle

Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods - Part II

Marton Trencseni - Fri 21 January 2022 • Tagged with wordle, monte-carlo

I improve on the previous brute-force Monte Carlo approach for attacking the Wordle coverage problem.

Wordle

Optimal coverage for Wordle with Monte Carlo methods - Part I

Marton Trencseni - Wed 19 January 2022 • Tagged with wordle, monte-carlo

I show a simple brute-force Monte Carlo approach for attacking the Wordle coverage problem.

Wordle

Probabilistic spin glass - Part V

Marton Trencseni - Thu 06 January 2022 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

I use Monte Carlo simulations to explore the dynamic behaviour of probabilistic spin glasses, specifically how saturation scales with $p$ and $N$.

Probabilistic spin glass - Part IV

Marton Trencseni - Fri 31 December 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

This is a continuation of the previous articles on probabilistic spin glasses. I run simulations to understand the scaling behaviour for large spin glasses.

Probabilistic spin glass - Part III

Marton Trencseni - Sat 25 December 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

I run simulations to understand the dynamic probabilistic evolution of these toy models.

Probabilistic spin glass - Part II

Marton Trencseni - Sat 18 December 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

This is a continuation of the previous article on probabilistic spin glasses, with improvements to the simulation code and improved entropy computation.

Probabilistic spin glass - Part I

Marton Trencseni - Sat 11 December 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics, spin, glass

I run Monte Carlo simulations on probabilistic spin glasses, a simple mathematical model of magnetized matter with short range interactions. I use entropy to characterize the model's order-disorder transition.

The physical Sackur-Tetrode entropy of an ideal gas

Marton Trencseni - Mon 29 November 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics

I derive the Sackur-Tetrode equation for entropy of a monatomic ideal gas.

Entropy of an ideal gas with coarse-graining

Marton Trencseni - Fri 19 November 2021 • Tagged with entropy, physics

I show the first steps of how to arrive at a definition of entropy for a monatomic ideal gas modeled as hard billiard balls.

WeToddle retrospective

Marton Trencseni - Fri 29 October 2021 • Tagged with startups, cocoon, facebook

The idea behind WeToddle came from the Baby Fanclub group we have on Messenger, which has most of our family in it. It turns out some ex-Facebook people had a similar idea in 2019, raised $3M, spent a 2 years on it, and then gave up because it didn’t go anywhere (presumably).

WeToddle Android

Entropy in Data Science

Marton Trencseni - Sun 24 October 2021 • Tagged with entropy

I discuss 4 uses of entropy in Data Science: (i) cross entropy as a loss function for training neural network classifiers (ii) entropy as a splitting criterion for building decision trees (iii) entropy for evaluating clustering algorithms (iv) entropy for understanding relationships in tabular data.

Information gain