henrytcs

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   by henrytcs 11y ago

   That's the right intuition. But here we have to distinguish between information theoretic randomness and computational randomness (also known as algorithmic randomness ). In the former, we're guaranteed that the output is act
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   by henrytcs 11y ago

   Hi gizmo686. Yes, what you propose is correct. But this requires that every time you iterate this process, you're required to find additional sources of weak data that is completely independent of the sources of weak data you used in
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   by henrytcs 11y ago

   Hi, this is the author of the blog post here. Fenomas raises a good point that I completely glossed over in my post, which is what it means for something to be random or unpredictable. Indeed, one can't ever know for certain whether