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  • Is there anything about how they originated upon this method?

    I haven't seen anything about this method specifically, but Marsaglia was a mathematician who studied randomness his entire career, so I assume it came about from that.

  • The George Marsaglia mental pseudorandom number generator method:

    • Think of a 2-digit 'seed' number.
    • Multiply the second digit by 6 and add it to the first number.
    • Repeat once.
    • Use the right-most digit of the new number as your random number.

    If you chart the results using a spreadsheet you can see a weak pattern emerge but it's not easily human-predictable, which is what makes it useful to me.

  • It's the ratio.

    People will swim in the sea, even though it has corpses in it. They won't swim in a swimming pool if it has corpses in it. It's the corpse/water ratio that makes the difference. In your case it looks like a seagull/seaside-proximity ratio.

  • Hey, I just realised that if Brownian motion carries all the water molecules away together, I won't need a towel after my shower.

    Sorry, what? Your point? I suppose not.

  • But is IA a real thing, or just an implicit bias towards dualistic thinking? What if not everything has its opposite?

  • Are you an AI? Operating from some kind of faulty code base? Is that why you take the question seriously?

  • He looks like someone just asked him to spell 'necessary' without using his phone.

  • Would I know if I was?

  • They'd tell you, but...

  • At this point I'd settle for any overlord that has a realistic plan.

  • I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.

  • "We dropped all our bombs! PEACE!"

    Wish I could appreciate the irony, because there's nothing else going for the situation.

  • In the books, you couldn’t mistake Murderbot for a human.

    In the books, Murderbot repeatedly remarks that it can easily pass for human among humans, but other constructs would spot it immediately.