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To: tortoise

However, one can have negative temperatures (statistical mechanics version). They do not lead to negative entropies though.


466 posted on 01/04/2005 9:17:46 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
However, one can have negative temperatures (statistical mechanics version).

Yeah, but this is a general feature of statistical models of a lot of things -- you can "borrow" locally into some strange negatives as long as it disappears in the long-term integration. Which is kind of neat in some ways.

Me, I'm stuck in the computational theoretic view. The only statistical models we like are Bayesian (zzzzz....).

468 posted on 01/04/2005 9:38:01 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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