The way I understand it is with an analogy to probability. To me, events are to microscopic states like random variable is to entropy.

My first contact with entropy was in chemistry and thermodynamics and I didn't get it. Actually I didn't get anything from engineering thermodynamics books such as Çengel and so.

You must go to statistical mechanics or information theory to understand entropy. Or trying these PRICELESS NOTES from Prof. Suo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UMwpoDRZLlawWlL2Dz6YEomy...

I just find another alternative to Git called Grace. It's made by a Microsoft employee with F#.

I saw the presentation, its about having cloud ready or cloud native scm, i dont think this is a great idea

git is about working locally github (or similar solutions) is the cloud part

cloud native scm sound like a bad idea

According to entropy, and thermodynamics in general, I can't recommend enough the notes [0] of prof. Zhigang Suo of Harvard. It's a new way of presenting thermodynamics and I finally get it... contrary to when I took a thermo course at university.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Vi8s-azYq9auysBSK3SFSWZ...

Also prof. Suo puts entropy as the main character of the "play". The other concepts (temperature, etc.) are defined from entropy.

Sorry, don't count with me. I don't like using on my code symbols I don't have on my keyboard. I still prefer LaTeX for math notation.

For normal text my new hope is Djot, a lighweight markup language by the creator of Pandoc.

For instance, Mathematica is great, we can actually use and see the domain language (which is symbols, subscripts, Greek letters) while coding mathematical formulas instead of weirdly translating everything into English.

I for one would love to see us evolving past ASCII

Also with gold. Some news headlines: "Turkey tightens regulation of jewellers after demand for gold soars", "Turkey's Erdogan repeats call for citizens to convert forex, gold holdings".

"Revolutionary Wealth", by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.