Not enough randomness in the most recent tweet for your needs? Then use it to pick another tweet from their timeline at random, and repeat until you have all the randomness you need. This is called tail recursion.
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I studied statistical mechanics just long enough to go slightly more insane every time a computer nerd complains about running low on entropy
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UEFI has a network stack, no excuses anymore
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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if you trust your user then getting random numbers is simple, just prompt them to flip a coin N times and enter the result, and then you have N random bits
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That classist solution discriminates against users who don't own a coin
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@dailyrandomnums here :-) I'm always interested to see how people make use of the numbers, because it started off as a proof-of-concept "Can I make a script send a Tweet?" operation. Happily surprised to see new usage ;-) -
However I'm aware of the limitations of using this as an 'authoritative' randomness source. No checks for randomness have ever been done, also the idea of lots of people using this same source as a source for their application seems ... risky.
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