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Quantum randomness being necessary hardly seems like it would have profound practical implications since augmenting a digital computer with a geiger counter wou
by catalogia 6y ago
Quantum randomness being necessary hardly seems like it would have profound practical implications since augmenting a digital computer with a geiger counter would be trivial.
- criddell 6y agoIt's much easier than that. Hardware random number generators are often based on something like a reverse-biased diode. Electrons migrate across and it's entirely random when it happens. Amplify and count them and you get a great source of entropy.