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by rini17 2008 days ago
The entropy is -0.7log2(0.7)-0.3log2(0.3) = 0.88 .

The post is very confusing, in no case can deterministic hashing increase the entropy. And if it outputs only half of input entropy then it's only 8% more efficient than von neumann in this case.