The Hidden Fitting

Swap the phases of two photographs and the faces swap with them. An old result from signal processing, a fragment of Heraclitus, and the first test my…

13 hrs ago • Tommaso Firaux and it's science

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[Start here] What is it's science?

An introduction, and one glass of water to try.

Oct 18 • it's science

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What the Olive Counts

Last week a glass of muddy water settled and stopped. A field of wheat, a Cretan olive tree and one question about parents show what entropy measures…

Oct 15 • Tommaso Firaux

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Still Water Is Not a Quiet Mind

We call a restless mind entropy. A line of Laozi, a glass of muddy water and two ways of measuring the brain say we have the word backward.

Oct 1 • Tommaso Firaux

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September 2026

The Eye of a Statue

Shannon warned in 1956 that his theory was being misread. Information is not something things contain. It is something they do: Form in Action.

Sep 24 • Tommaso Firaux

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The Price of Forgetting

In 2012 a group of physicists in Lyon built the smallest memory anyone had ever built, erased one bit, and measured the heat. The number had been…

Sep 17 • Tommaso Firaux

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The Same Equation Twice

Boltzmann has a formula carved on his headstone in Vienna. Eighty years later Shannon wrote the same one, about something else entirely. Physicists have…

Sep 10 • Tommaso Firaux

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The Being With Neat Fingers

Maxwell invented a creature that could sort molecules for free, and called it neat fingered. Sixty years later Leo Szilard worked out what its attention…

Sep 2 • Tommaso Firaux

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August 2026

What a Bit Actually Is

In 1946 a radio panel was spending bits before anyone had the word. What Claude Shannon threw away to give it to them, and what a quieter tradition says…

Aug 27 • Tommaso Firaux

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April 2026

You Are Not a Closed System

A Reflection On The Physics of Being Together

Apr 12 • Tommaso Firaux

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Where does art come from?

Before pigment, before stone, before sound — there is information. A walk from Plato's cave to membrane dynamism.

Published on it's art • Apr 9