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What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization spawn-queue.acm.org

Tomtean hour ago

Starts interesting, then veers into the usual "true random number" bullshit. Use radioactive decay as source of your random numbers!

zeroxfe15 minutes ago

> usual "true random number" bullshit

What's bullshit about it? This is how TRNGs in security enclaves work. They collect entropy from the environment, and use that to continuously reseed a PRNG, which generates bits.

If you're talking "true" in the philosophical sense, that doesn't exist -- the whole concept of randomness relies on an oracle.

amelius39 minutes ago

How do we know it's truly random?

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