Speak for yourself. I am a programmer, and to me 'random' is a characterization of any variable drawn from a probability distribution, and it need not be unifor

Speak for yourself. I am a programmer, and to me 'random' is a characterization of any variable drawn from a probability distribution, and it need not be uniform. In fact, most of the random time series I generate are produced by drawing from non-uniform (e.g. power law, gaussian) distributions. And I think calling them "predictable" is a bit of a stretch. They are predictable only insofar as I can say, "This variable will probably not go above or below X."