What is Random?

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
@AllYourMemeAreBelongToUs
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
2:18 use this string in google
@artin3926
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
2024😊
@mrcallahans3041
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
the shi i be spouting is random
@LeYohan
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
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@Mezziuu5
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Wow
@catbutother
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
hey michael, what are the chances the next person who looks at this comment is 14 years old?
@_Gusza
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
"Today, let's stop being random."
"…and commit ransom"
@navyntune8158
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Speaking of URLs, I still remember the glorious day when Technical found the n word in all caps in his Limbo video URL
@itskord8444
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
why this video ends at 11:11
@DinoXander
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
These comments are so RANDOM?!
@StupidCat-rc
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Incredible ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@caesedilla4080
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Whats the music at 5:40
@St-qv5ff
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
actually Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe" 8:51
@hunterzolomon4472
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Ransmart is my new favourite thing
@ThomasButlergT6
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
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@Natural_Black_Man
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
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@Marizanevarez2000
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
He burger
@MrMarsAnimations
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
0:19 Freesmart name origin be like:
@Mycatsveaissocute
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Tysm algorithm for randomly giving me this OR IS IT?
@perryperry7257
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
i like worms.
@pyrexvic
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
youtube recommending this in 2024 seems pretty random
@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.
@rmcgraw7943
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
There is nothing random conceived by a structured algorithm, by definition. Stochastic yes, random no.
@skweedom
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Never do vsauce on shrooms
@random6ame3njoyer14
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Me! I’m Random! Well, RandomGameEnjoyer
@WolfgangFor
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
We don't like randomness,it scares us, we try to control random by any means.
@radonkule1564
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
rewanced to omit advertisement.
@rray5506
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
stochastic: randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
@LexachGaming
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Digits of any constant like Pi or Phi or Euler’s number ARE random
@Mr.iamrandom
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Am i random?
@FGCwaffle
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
I love seeing this again a decade later!!
@liviuclipa
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
This video length is 11:11 and 11 million views. How random
@GamerPro-y6t
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Awww…that dog is so cute!!!
Michael:or is it?
@finnvidz1
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
I also like worms
@mukherjee22
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
This is one of the most interesting videos on YouTube. ❤
@socialmedia3536
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Anyone can help me?
@Seibabkf
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
Michael and Derek are both my fav scientist YouTubers you guys need to collab
@iamarandom409
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
im random+
@Faqrull96
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
anyone watching in 2045?
@garricks2dworld626
October 12, 2024 at 6:00 am
NO ONES TALKING ABOUT THE BENCH THAT SAYS "i like worms"
@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.
@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.