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> Arguably then, from a truly omniscient perspective, nothing, not even the physical world, is truly random Technicality or practicality? This is one of those
by mattpallissard 4y ago
> Arguably then, from a truly omniscient perspective, nothing, not even the physical world, is truly random
Technicality or practicality? This is one of those mathematician vs engineer topics. I'm reminded of this lkml thread from a few years back.
https://lwn.net/ml/netdev/CAHk-=wiSw7zYVUxiGT=_TPx1fqtNNYgu0L6rC=GaSGpCDnDbVw@mail.gmail.com/ https://lwn.net/ml/netdev/CAHk-=wiSw7zYVUxiGT=_TPx1fqtNNYgu0...
- valine 4y agoEven from an omniscient perspective it isn’t remotely clear that quantum waveform collapse isn’t entirely random. Quantum random number generators should be empirically nondeterministic.