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Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds (www.techspot.com)

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Thanks to @[email protected] for the links!

Here’s a link to Caltech’s press release: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

Here’s a link to the actual paper (paywall): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0

Here’s a link to a preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For one, password security theory that actually works (instead of just "use a special character") is based on information theory and its concept of entropy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

OK I don't think information theory is actually needed for that. Just a bit of above average intelligence apparently.
Yes it's true some use the term entropy, instead of just the statistical amount of combinations, and obviously forcing a special character instead of just having it as an option, makes the number of possibilities lower, decreasing the uncertainty, which they then choose to call entropy. Which counter intuitively IMO is called increased entropy.

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