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This whole experiment has more to do with defining what humans perceive as randomness. Of course, different humans are different. Ramunijan and his 1729 taxi, o
by javajosh 5y ago
This whole experiment has more to do with defining what humans perceive as randomness. Of course, different humans are different. Ramunijan and his 1729 taxi, or a cryptographer studying some (apparently) random string, will keep going when others would not. Interestingly, the same is true for source code, or in the physical realm, looking at the innards of a modern car. It looks random to the layman! But of course it isn't at all.
"Cracking the code" can have quite high stakes, and so some of the smartest humans who ever lived have thought about it. See, for example, this article on Shannon entropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)