4–29 Sept 2017
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

On the value of acquired information in gambling, evolution and thermodynamics

11 Sept 2017, 10:00
1h
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Prof. Luca Peliti (University "Federico II", Naples)

Description

The connection between the information value of a message and capital gain was made by Kelly in 1956. In 1965 Kimura tried to evaluate the rate of information intake by a population undergoing Darwinian evolution by equating it with the substitutional load. Recently, the analogy between Kelly's scheme and work extraction was pointed out in the context of stochastic thermodynamics. I shall try to connect these threads, highlighting analogies and differences between the meaning of information and its value in the different contexts.

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