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04/30/11 20:59
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#182130 - Randomness - NOT
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I'll make a statement that may jar the sensibility of some that will read it. But here it is anyway. There can be no such thing as true randomness. Every process one can think of as a predicate to "randomness" will be flawed. Generally speaking everything in the universe is in some way affected by something else. On a more specific note the simple act of trying to probe, measure or test some process for true randomness will have an effect on the outcome by imposing some type of bias.

So the search for randomness needs to be tempered with "what is good enough".

Michael Karas


List of 15 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Truly Random Number Generator            01/01/70 00:00      
   Latency Time Problem            01/01/70 00:00      
   this is bad            01/01/70 00:00      
      Don't think 1:1 mapping            01/01/70 00:00      
         understanding            01/01/70 00:00      
            Doesn't matter            01/01/70 00:00      
   Yeah, yeah!!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Way more than 3            01/01/70 00:00      
      baloney            01/01/70 00:00      
         So easy to make assumptions and crash and burn            01/01/70 00:00      
      Missing the point!            01/01/70 00:00      
   Its just soooo wrong            01/01/70 00:00      
      Randomness - NOT            01/01/70 00:00      
         The key point is            01/01/70 00:00      
            Johnson noise versus zener noise...            01/01/70 00:00      

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