{"id":7497,"date":"2014-11-13T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2014-11-13T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:09:20","slug":"its-all-about-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/13\/its-all-about-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about Entropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistician and Machine Learning genius <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_I._Jordan\">Michael Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MachineLearning\/comments\/2fxi6v\/ama_michael_i_jordan\/\">asked about the makeup of\u00a0his typical day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spend half of each day minimizing entropy and half of each day maximizing entropy.<\/p>\n<p>(The exact mix isn&#8217;t one half, and indeed it&#8217;s the precise calibration of that number which is the main determiner of my happiness in life.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistician and Machine Learning genius Michael Jordan, asked about the makeup of\u00a0his typical day: I spend half of each day minimizing entropy and half of each day maximizing entropy. (The exact mix isn&#8217;t one half, and indeed it&#8217;s the precise calibration of that number which is the main determiner of my happiness in life.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-geek","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7503,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions\/7503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}