Sunday, May 12, 2024

Psuedo-randomness = subjective randomness = "Real" randomness

How could I have missed this obvious truth?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZck0N_T9Cs 

2:24 What these examples show is that from a computer scientist's point of view, randomness at its core is often not about debating whether the underlying physical laws are deterministic or not. Often, a more useful way to look at it is that the bits are random to you if you cannot exploit the way they were generated.

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