#randomness

Dark Numbers Hidden in Plain Sight: The Mystery of Normal Numbers

We are pretty much familiar with Real numbers. We know about Natural numbers, whole numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers and so…

Entropy and the Sand: How Ancient Diviners Engineered True Randomness

In modern computing, creating true randomness is surprisingly difficult. Your laptop cannot inherently think of a random number; it relies…

The Prison of Our Preferences

Why Are We Afraid of Change, and Why Can Randomness Sometimes Be Liberating?

Blue sky poppy- An experience of an evening walk.

6:15pm I crossed paths with an unknown neighbour; it was either that I almost bumped into him or he thought he almost bumped into me. What…

How Randomness In Numbers Works Through Different Perspectives

What, exactly, is randomness? According to merriamwebster.com, randomness is “the quality or state of being, or seeming random (as in being…

Temperature

Why the Same Prompt Doesn’t Always Produce the Same Answer

Deterministic Chaos

I think all the chaos in the world we see, around ourselves, in our lives, it may look random but it’s not random. It’s based on something…

I want something so that…

I can become the dearest friend of MS Dhoni.

Little Joys in Life that can’t be named; just felt

Can You Make This Fair? The Von Neumann Extractor

“I have a system to make any biased die give a fair result!” Really?

《隨機騙局》-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

如同書名，本書談的是我們如何被這個世界的隨機性所愚弄。

Beyond Evolution as Billiard Ball Randomness

Electricity, directionality, and the hidden organization of life

Determinism vs. Randomness: The False Dichotomy That Makes Us Miss the Point

by Claudio Bresciano

Randomness in Prediction Markets: Why Fair Outcomes Need Verifiable RNG

Prediction markets are built on a simple promise — if people can freely trade on outcomes, the market will aggregate information and…

Probability — The Defining Pillar of Randomness

Randomness emerges from the mathematical laws that define the likelihood to outcomes.

Random Number: The Complete Guide to Understanding Randomness and Probability

You need to make a fair decision. Pick a number between 1 and 10. Whoever guesses closest wins.

Randcast Playground Upgrade: Multi-Chain, Low-Latency Randomness with Verifiable Draw, Roll, and…

Verifiable randomness is a core primitive for many Web3 applications, from community lotteries and giveaways to games, NFT drops, and…

Qadr (A Small Word, A Different Mind)

Conscious Manifestation of Randomness

The Secret Affair Between Artificial Intelligence and the Number Seventeen (Also, Tuesday)

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Arbitrary

Reimagining Randomness as Untraceability

The universe does not play dice; it plays dialogue — a perpetual exchange between what can be known and what must remain untraceable

The Statistical Meaning behind Mutual Information in Machine Learning

In most cases, when we talk about relationships between variables in machine learning, correlation often gets most of the attention. We…

Games And Randomness

From a dice roll to loot drops, we explore the design philosophy behind the element of chance that makes games exciting.

GPT-5, Randomness, and the Million Monkeys

GPT-5, Randomness, and the Million Monkeys: A Deeper Look

Exposure Is The Engine

How I Got Unstuck, Again and Again

The Internet Is an Infinite Lottery Machine

Dive deep with me in the world of infinite leverage.

Monkey Business

Infinite monkeys, generative AI, and what it means to be creative

Livelock: When Threads Dance But Never Progress

Imagine two people in a hallway, both trying to pass by stepping aside, but every time one moves, the other moves too. They keep dodging…

The Unsung Hero of Randomness: A Tale of the Fisher-Yates Shuffle

Imagine a world without randomness. No dice rolls, no coin flips, no shuffling of cards. Just a predictable, deterministic universe where…

Your Next Database-Lifehack: Efficient Pseudo-Random Sorting with Hashing

Fetch “random” data without compromising on query speed

Physics Nobel Prize 2021

Giorgio Parisi and his jumps in several fields

Intentional Collapse: Plausibly Human Randomized Text

When I wanted to create a novel with random variations in its text, I realized very quickly that “random” isn’t how real writers think.