jeremycherfas
jeremycherfas

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Stupid 155 1/1/2

OK, this is weird, but I find it hard to believe that yesterday's word and today's came up purely randomly.

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artkavanagh
artkavanagh

@jeremycherfas In a way, I find it hard to believe that they could have come up like that otherwise than randomly. Remember how the iPod Shuffle had to be made “less random” because it kept doing things that didn’t look random (playing successive tracks from the same album etc). OTOH, nothing produced by a computer is truly random, since the system is unavoidably deterministic. Today’s answer would have been my first attempt yesterday, till the third letter came up pink. Today, I got it in one, with no backspaces.

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jeremycherfas
jeremycherfas

@artkavanagh I agree, in my head. But my heart says no. The whole business of people not understanding random, so they have not enough sequences in numbers and so on, is fascinating. But I think @cdevroe should weigh in. He did say he was making tweaks ...

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cdevroe
cdevroe

@jeremycherfas @artkavanagh The order of the words are not random - insomuch as I typed them. However, as Art mentioned, nothing in computers is truly random. Even the scrambling of the word is deterministic to a degree. :)

But it random enough for me!

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jeremycherfas
jeremycherfas

@cdevroe I suppose I could @mention you every time, but that would get tedious for you. And I don’t know if you saw my post this morning, but as I said then, twice is coincidence. @artkavanagh

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