CONTEST Instant Harmonic Karma™
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CONTEST
Betty Wont
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Y'all are too sweet. How random! It will go to good use, thank you!! I'm reminded of the words of gratitude William Howard Taft expressed to Henry Winkler on the set of Xena: Warrior Princess.....
"What's with all these llamas, and why ain't they spittin'?"
"What's with all these llamas, and why ain't they spittin'?"
andare
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I hear they're opening a new location near the practice of Bob Loblaw (of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog fame)
Stickman393
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I thought I saw him in the chat room.
QUICK! Everyone to the chat room!
Need to know basis, I'm afraid. Heavily compartmentalized, codeword classified information. But the codeword is "raptor princess". Just start saying that to random folks on the street until you get someone who knows what you're talking about. Then...believe me...you might need to fake a phone call in order to get out of talking to them.
I SEE THE RANDOM THREAD, AND REPLY WITH SUITE OF RANDOMLY CONSTRUCTED SENTENCES!
Car safety systems have come a long way, but he was out to prove they could be outsmarted.
Wisdom is easily acquired when hiding under the bed with a saucepan on your head.
I imagine you think of this activity as something characters from a Jane Austin novel did.
Sometimes you have to just give up and win by cheating.
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wintercept
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I tried posting the entirety of the bee movie script, but fortunately for the rest of you, there is a word limit on posts.
wintercept
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Might I point out however, that according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.
Stickman393
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Man who says that a thing is not possible should not interrupt man who is doing it.
blackhatboojum
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Danbieranowski
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I’m just here trying to figure out which tube screamer variant I should build next.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Didn't Death By Audio do one where the opamp was installed upside down?
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
wintercept
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Not a software guy by any means but I remember this awesome video about Cloudflare’s encryption. Since software can’t be truly random, they have a wall of lava lamps with a camera pointed at it taking pictures, and the data from those is used for encryption keys.
Since the lava lamps cannot be predicted, it’s truly random.
I think I read that they have a different solution at each site, one might be a fish tank; I don’t remember much else.
fig
Village Idiot
Fair question. If you are dealing in absolutes, then my response would be you don't.
wintercept
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Found an article! No idea where I got fish tank from, but one of their other offices uses a double pendulum and the other measures the radioactive decay of a uranium pellet…
fig
Village Idiot
Right. They are inputing variables from a randomness as the seed.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Good answers. I like lava lamps.
You have to find an external process that is random, or at least unpredictable, and use that to seed the pseudo-random generator. Games of chance can use the unwitting player to generate the seed. Simply pressing a button is an unpredictable process. Measure how long the button is down, in microseconds, and there's the seed.
You have to find an external process that is random, or at least unpredictable, and use that to seed the pseudo-random generator. Games of chance can use the unwitting player to generate the seed. Simply pressing a button is an unpredictable process. Measure how long the button is down, in microseconds, and there's the seed.
fig
Village Idiot
Yep, gotta have random to make random.
Luckily, we didn't need that much resolution in our "randomness". The data sets we analyze are pretty wide-band, but we have millions of historical points to offer predictive results to a 99+% probability.