malevolent randomness
Major Variola (ret)
mv at cdc.gov
Tue Dec 7 19:53:38 PST 2004
At 07:46 PM 12/4/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
>Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately,
due
>to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant
>coincidences or else the machinations of a malevolent universe set up
>specifically to piss me off.
Please remember to watch a random stream. Random negatives will
occur in surprisingly long to your finite-state simian mind sequences.
Myself, I run a geiger counter, and it makes me happy. Some bins,
no counts, others, a few times higher than average. Dig?
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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to
chance."
-Robert R. Coveyou ORNL mathematician
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