Nerds have too much time on their hands now; they're analyzing LC-PRNGs at the bit level to determine if a Minecraft streamer exploited their known failure modes to cheat in a speedrun https://mcspeedrun.com/dream.pdf
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Essentially, if you have a function rand(), it's possible that even if individual values seem unpredictable, sequential combinations of calls are predictable, eg N consecutive rand() calls live on a submanifold of R^N:pic.twitter.com/Zaglpr7qN4
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(This example comes from RANDU, IBM's hardware random number generator, and also that reason you should consider any Monte Carlo simulation from a scientific paper written between 1960-1980 to be wrong until replicated on a modern system)
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My thesis advisor used to brag to me that he got his random numbers from an API that was based on observations of solar flares
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Is that the one where you can wiggle the mouse to create the entropy?
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it reads noise from device drivers, so: yes? that being said urandom is also prng and i am being tongue in cheek
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I get my randomness exclusively from uncontacted Polynesian tribes wiggling the mice of their antique 486/SX PCs, the only truly artisanal source of entropy.
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if they’re uncontacted how do you get the entropy
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