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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication

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Then the Channel Capacity Changes With the Temperature of the Reservoir

The higher the temperature of a particular noise source, the higher the probability of error. This implies that it would be more efficient to send information at a specific lower rate across multiple channels than to run at a higher rate using one channel. And I mean energetically efficient, thermodynamically efficient. So yeah, those are the results which we've found and are continuing to try to expand upon and see what are the exact limits and what kind of scenarios can you have like more than two sources of noise?

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