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   by rerefreshment 7y ago

   If you like, you can work out the maximum number of degrees of freedom that could theoretically be involved in something you could call a fair coin toss. Hint: it’s a free body under rotation on a parabolic trajectory. You won’t end up need
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   by rerefreshment 7y ago

   Yes! You’re talking about something different from algorithmic randomness, which would be a property of (infinite...) sequences. When I throw a coin in the air and say “heads or tails”, you have to make a prediction as to where it will land
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   by rerefreshment 7y ago

   I haven’t really heard much talk about “Kolmogorov randomness” before, and so I’m wondering if you might be running up against the limits of the Wikipedia paradigm when it comes to pioneering scholarship. The citation for that paragraph is