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The Past as a Stochastic Process
David H. Wolpert, Michael H. Price, Stefani A. Crabtree +6
Historical processes manifest remarkable diversity. Nevertheless, scholars have long attempted to identify patterns and categorize historical actors and influences with some succes…
Thermodynamic speed limits for co-evolving systems
Farita Tasnim, David H. Wolpert
Previously derived "global" thermodynamic speed limit theorems state that increasing the maximum speed with which a system can evolve between two given probability distributions ov…
Entropy production given constraints on the energy functions
Artemy Kolchinsky, David H. Wolpert
We consider the problem of driving a finite-state classical system from some initial distribution to some final distribution with vanishing entropy production (EP), under…
Thermodynamics of nonequilibrium systems with uncertain parameters
Jan Korbel, David H. Wolpert
In the real world, one almost never knows the parameters of a thermodynamic process to infinite precision. Reflecting this, here we investigate how to extend stochastic thermodynam…
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction
David H. Wolpert
The important recent book by G. Schurz appreciates that the no-free-lunch theorems (NFL) have major implications for the problem of (meta) induction. Here I review the NFL theorems…
Dependence of integrated, instantaneous, and fluctuating entropy production on the initial state in quantum and classical processes
Artemy Kolchinsky, David H. Wolpert
We consider the additional entropy production (EP) incurred by a fixed quantum or classical process on some initial state , above the minimum EP incurred by the same process on…
Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations for Multipartite Processes
Gülce Kardeş, David H. Wolpert
The thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) provide lower bounds on the entropy production (EP) of a system in terms of the statistical precision of an arbitrary current in that…