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No need. If that sequence is not random, quantum mechanics is in big trouble.
by mathetic 11y ago
No need. If that sequence is not random, quantum mechanics is in big trouble.
- kaoD 11y agoYou're not sampling the signal directly on the transistor. There are lots of places where the randomness could be biased.
- adrianN 11y agoRandom does not mean uniform and unbiased. A coin that lands heads up 99.99% of the time is still random, but not terribly useful without some postprocessing.
- jason_s 11y agojust because binary data is "random" doesn't mean it yields independent, identically-distributed random variables --- whatever the source.