[2012-Jul-13] Pseudorandom
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[2012-Jul-13] Pseudorandom
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!")
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!")
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
not really that funny, man
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Nor is it ironic.
Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Someone is going to have to explain to me how "accessing quantum randomness" somehow translates into giving someone free will.
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
First we'd need a definition of free will.
I guess we'd go from there.
I guess we'd go from there.
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Isn't it that movie with a killer whale who jumps over that boy's head to escape into the sea?
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"I wonder if chemists feel bad that they're always left out of these sorts of jokes."
Since when is chemistry not a science?
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
I never saw it, I only read the novelisation. And what a novelisation!
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
But how can you have your Free Willy without Michael Jackson?Salacious Schoolmate wrote:I never saw it, I only read the novelisation. And what a novelisation!
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
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.
Don't see any irony in it though, think rand is just over-thinking things.
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Dude, we were talking about Free Willy here. You can't just derail the topic thread like that!
Destructicus wrote: Alt text:
"I wonder if chemists feel bad that they're always left out of these sorts of jokes."
Since when is chemistry not a science?
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
What would the porn parody of free willy be called?
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Comic 2672
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.
How is non-deterministic behavior (whose probability is however determinable) "free will"? Your will is still "determined" by these quantum-mechanical phenomena.
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Re: July 13 (?) Pseudorandom
Willy's Release?
Destructicus wrote: Alt text:
"I wonder if chemists feel bad that they're always left out of these sorts of jokes."
Since when is chemistry not a science?
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