Re: VMs: semiotics & vms: homepage

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 14:46 10/09/2003 +0100, Gabriel Landini wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:54, Jacques Guy wrote:
> > Now, now, now... are the images random? Is the layout random?
>
> Of course, and one can go further and ask to "define random".
> Lots of *seemingly* random patterns are not random at all.
> Just look at algorithms for random number generators (RNGs). By definition
> they *cannot* be random!
> And in this context humans do very badly at writing "random" sequences when
> asked to do so.

Except if they think to use a dice or toss a coin (and throw it high enough 
each time) ;-)

Quick piece of advice: never get a computer scientist in a pub started on 
pseudo-random number generators... life is just too short... :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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