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Entropy? Honest!

Here we deconstruct, and then in a reasoned way reconstruct, the concept of “entropy of a system”, paying particular attention to where the randomness may be coming from. We start with the core concept of entropy as a count associated with a description; this count (traditionally expressed in logarithmic form for a number of good reasons) is in essence the number of possibilities—specific insta...

Honest universality.

We extend the notion of universality of a function, due to Turing, to arbitrary (countable) effective domains, taking care to disallow any cheating on the part of the representations used. Then, we can be certain that effective universal functions cannot simulate non-effective functions.

Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex?

Modern business process modeling languages such as BPMN or EPC provide users with more constructs to represent real world situations than their predecessors such as IDEF or Petri Nets. But this apparent increase in expressiveness is accompanied by an increase in language complexity. In practice many organizations choose to only use a subset of the available modeling constructs. Using a wellesta...

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The dishonest HONEST Act.

he Trump administration aims to eliminate many regulations and make it more difficult to adopt new ones. More subtle and dangerous are attempts in Congress to undermine public health and environmental protections by limiting the use of scientific evidence under the guise of increased transparency. This effort, which as envisioned by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leadership would gr...