| Date | Update |
| 09 Jan 2003 | added section IV-B-4 on the MaxEnt definition of net surprisal (a measure that's been around for a while in specific instances e.g. Morowitz used a form of it in one of his books, even though it's not familiar from most introductory courses in spite of its simplicity) |
| 20 Jan 2003 | added Appendix A on a non-energy application of max-ent that touches on familiar ground for most students and teachers, along with a figure therein. Appendix B on mutual information and max-ent is in the works. |
| 22 Jan 2003 | added a sentence in V-B on Grosse et al's comments about the utility of intra-molecule mutual-information measures in their paper on coding/non-coding DNA |
| 23 Jan 2003 | skeletal draft (no worked examples yet) of Appendix B on the basics of mutual information. |
| 25 Jan 2003 | Abstract update, expanded discussion of the history of invention list in section VII, updates to section V-B on mutual information (esp. the connection between 2nd law assertions and mutual information) using notation from Appendix B, plus a first round of changes throughout (there are more to come) thanks to comments provided by Tom Schneider. |
| 26 Jan 2003 | Added a RevTeX table of contents, an ice water invention paragraph in section IV-B-4 on the thermodynamic utility of net surprisal, and updated the acknowledgements. |
| 27 Jan 2003 | Updated figures 5 and 6, to correspond the ``source version'' of those figures on the hcapbits webpage, and submitted the version 3 final to arXiv. |
| 02 Feb 2003 | Updated the conclusions (with a maxent synthesis of 2nd law and uncertainty slope results), the acknowledgements, and added a reference. |
| 03 Feb 2003 | Added a redirect paragraph in the introduction, to protect life sciences readers from the difficult parts until they have an idea why they might want to dive in. |