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[2012-Jul-13] Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:07 am
by rand
The ironic thing about this comic is that the people with the RNGs in their heads could have had pseudo-random number generators (say the C programming language's RNG) in there and no one would be able to tell the difference.
I was hoping this would make it into the secret panel:
"I swear, I'm deterministic! The chips are just cheap Chinese knockoffs spitting out digits of pi, with noise thrown in from the Dow Jones Industrial Average!"
(Possible addition: "It wasn't my choice, they were half the price!")
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:30 am
by DonRetrasado
not really that funny, man
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:07 am
by Salacious Schoolmate
Nor is it ironic.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:43 pm
by Bob
Someone is going to have to explain to me how "accessing quantum randomness" somehow translates into giving someone free will.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:51 pm
by Salacious Schoolmate
First we'd need a definition of free will.
I guess we'd go from there.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:13 pm
by Sahan
Isn't it that movie with a killer whale who jumps over that boy's head to escape into the sea?
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:30 pm
by Salacious Schoolmate
I never saw it, I only read the novelisation. And what a novelisation!
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:04 pm
by ChaoticBrain
Salacious Schoolmate wrote:I never saw it, I only read the novelisation. And what a novelisation!
But how can you have your Free Willy without Michael Jackson?
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:35 pm
by Salacious Schoolmate
Came with a cassette tape
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:55 pm
by Mr. Bleh
I guess RNGs could be a robot's arbitrary decisions.
Don't see any irony in it though, think rand is just over-thinking things.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:36 am
by Sahan
Dude, we were talking about Free Willy here. You can't just derail the topic thread like that!
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:51 am
by Salacious Schoolmate
What would the porn parody of free willy be called?
Comic 2672
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:01 pm
by Destructicus
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db ... 2672#comic
How is non-deterministic behavior (whose probability is however determinable) "free will"? Your will is still "determined" by these quantum-mechanical phenomena.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:12 pm
by Sahan
Willy's Release?
Re: Comic 2672
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:23 pm
by GUTCHUCKER