Web-security firm @Cloudflare in San Francisco uses a vast array of lava lamps to generate random numbers :) Behold, the "Entropy Wall": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg … --- #LavaLamps #Encryption #RandomNumbers #Randomization #Aleatory
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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance" - Robert Coveyou,
@ORNL research mathematician :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coveyou … ---@Cloudflare#RandomNumbers#Randomization#Random#Aleatorypic.twitter.com/7U7eW45x0M
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Do dice not count?
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I would assume they count as RNGs but not as machines
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von Neumann in 1949 proposed middle-square method for PRNG. Take any number, ² it, take the middle digits of the resulting number & use that number as the seed for the next iteration. It was buggy, but he was aware of that.
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So how random is it?
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this is wonderful! I distinctly remember laughing for five minutes straight, loudly, in some library, when I came across one such table with an ERRATA page tipped in. LIKE HOW WOULD I KNOW YA KNOW?
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No pattern discovered, yet? Fascinating
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And your point is?
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