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Vsauce | October 12, 2024



There’s more over on Veritasium! “What is NOT Random?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMb00lz-IfE
SOURCES AND MORE BELOW!

My twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce
My instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants

Generate random numbers using atmospheric noise: http://www.random.org/

randomness:

http://www.random.org/randomness/
http://www.random.org/analysis/
http://faculty.rhodes.edu/wetzel/random/mainbody.html
http://faculty.rhodes.edu/wetzel/random/level23intro.html
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sciamer.html

flipping a coin until 10 heads happen in a row: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvIGNXY21Y

rolling dice until you get a Yahtzee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTwar7mFws

find word in YouTube video URLs with this in Google: allinurl:[your word here] site:youtube.com/watch

“Random” as slang:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=3&ref=on_language
http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/our-obsession-with-the-word-random-fear-of-a-millennial-planet

The many sides of dice: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dice_by_number_of_sides#D100

non-transitive dice: http://mathsgear.co.uk/products/non-transitive-grime-dice

Checking the fairness of dice:

http://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/
http://www.1000d4.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dice-unified-final-big.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhpYJzCcSw
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That’s_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_of_Dice
http://www.insidescience.org/blog/2012/09/12/dice-rolls-are-not-completely-random

A fancy super-fair die:

http://kotaku.com/the-most-technologically-advanced-six-sided-die-ever-1183763055

coin-flipping odds:

http://econ.ucsb.edu/~doug/240a/Coin%20Flip.htm
[PDF] http://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/papers/headswithJ.pdf
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_11.02.html#item2

a nickel landing on it’s side:

http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/adsabs/abs/1993PhRvE..48.2547M/
[PDF]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4559.pdf

a book that will keep you guessing: http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

17 ‘feels’ random: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/05/is-17-the-most-random-number/

How to be random (er.. wandom): http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Random

Bell’s inequality:

http://drchinese.com/David/Bell_Theorem_Easy_Math.htm
http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/bell.html
http://www.quantiki.org/wiki/Bell’s_theorem

Bell’s inequality videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-s3q9wlLag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zfnvGXpy-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-tKr0LJTM

You can’t even handle how wandom and quirky I am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSNHeAtETM

160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw

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  1. @Natural_Black_Man

    October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am

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  2. @rmcgraw7943

    October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am

    I use time span between temporal events as a random number generator, i.e. pinging an internet server, for cybersecurity. I know it is still somewhat deterministic, depending upon network latency, hardware responsiveness, logic gate evaluations, and much more, not to mention that ping responses timespans then to group for the same server (low standard deviation)…so, I drop the integer values before the decimal then invert the digits. It’s as random as anything in nature, since the deterministic coefficients in the operation are many and affected by nature themselves. Network latency and telecommunication responsiveness is effected my atmospheric moisture and many other nature inputs, as is energy availability to perform to computation, CPU availability, etc etc etc.

  3. @JoeStefanChaar

    October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am

    Random Meaning:
    "Random" refers to something that occurs without a specific pattern, plan, or predictable outcome. It implies a lack of order or pre-determined structure. For example, a random number is one chosen without any specific criteria, and a random event happens without a predictable cause or effect. In different contexts, "random" can also describe chance occurrences or selections that do not follow a set pattern.

  4. @yolomolo2736

    October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am

    If everything is random, then nothing is random, if you choose a bunch of items that are random because of that fact, then the thing in common is that they are all random which is a pattern which means they aren’t.

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