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Dilbert comic strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

  "Over here we have our random number generator."
  "Nine nine nine nine nine nine"
  "Are you sure that's random?"
  "Thats the problem with randomness: you can never be sure."

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Randomness is a weird concept, because if you roll a die it's random right? Unless you have all the physical variables - roll speed, angular velocity, height, shape of die, air resistance, air movement, temperature, etc to work out where it will land. So randomness is more a lack of knowledge. Randomness is that you are not sure.

And I don't know enough about quantum mechanics to even comment on that, but that's some weird shit too!

There was an interesting discussion about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25237356

That is my absolute favorite Dilbert.

https://xkcd.com/221/

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