Why can we assume equal a priori probabilities?

Given a state with many particles, if we want to guess about how we think the particles will be distributed, … More

How to think optimally ignorantly

I often return to Jaynes’s wonderful 1957 paper “Information theory and statistical mechanics”. Starting from the entropy as defined by … More

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