Ron_Hardin comments on Entropy, and Short Codes - Less Wrong
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It's called entropy because somebody told Shannon that the same mathematical quantity already existed in thermodynamics, when the question what to call it came up.
I don't know that there's any other operational connection.
Like there's no entropy gradient giving the arrow of time, or system-wide increase.