03-22-2011, 09:03 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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what do you think of psychics manipulating RNGs?
Random number generators.
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Seems legit to me. We already know observing an object will change it. i.e. you can't know a particles exact position and velocity I think it goes (physics has been awhile). So if this is true, what does it mean? By general statistics it should mean there are at least a few anomalies out there that could be much more powerful. I wonder what they can do and if they know it? Perhaps they're good gamblers. |
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03-22-2011, 02:38 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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I think that Twilight Sparkle might be powerful enough to have a statistically measurable effect on a RNG, once she studied them and understood them. It is not any more difficult than her ability to hold of an Ursa Minor and move a water tower simultaneously.
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03-22-2011, 03:21 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Twilight Sparkle?
I'm reasonably sure anything I say on this subject is going to result in my being accused of being a closed minded bigot anyway.
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03-22-2011, 04:55 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Feel free Martian, all are entitled to their own opinion. i just ask you support with some amount of evidence and not make silly jokes. Like how they found there to be 15! standard deviations off the norm (that's a huge difference for those not fluent in stat jargon). The likely-hood that its off, they said something like 1 in 10 trillion (or some big as number).
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03-23-2011, 01:36 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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I'm really not seeing a lot of detail here.
RNG aren't really random at this point. The may use complex and obscure algorithms to create a pseudo random number; but they aren't really random. As I read the data, they weren't trying to get a specific result, just prove the non-randomness of something that isn't really random in the first place. I'd go with statistical BS. |
03-23-2011, 08:20 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Random number generators aren't random and anyone who claims psychic abilities is either delusional or a fraud. If an experiment that is controlled and blinded as necessary to rule out bias of those recording the results can show otherwise, I am willing to believe so and there is a man in Florida with a million dollars for them.
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03-23-2011, 08:31 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Random number generators are not random, but let's not be disingenuous. It's entirely possible and not even that difficult to program a computer such that it produces output which is impossible to predict. I accomplish this feat regularly, whenever I need a random string of text.
Just because it's not truly random, doesn't mean it's predictable. However, just because they're calling it random, doesn't mean it actually is. Single unsourced page with vague references to "scientific studies?" This has buried the needle on my bullshit-o-meter.
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03-24-2011, 05:47 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
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I have an RSA key that seemingly generates random 6 digit numbers. Clearly, they aren't random or I wouldn't be logging into anything. I'll admit to skimming the article; but they seem to imply cause and effect simply because pseudo random numbers aren't totally random. Meaningless BS. If they want to make a case, have everyone's RSA key read 999999 at a specific time. |
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03-24-2011, 07:47 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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Damn, I've missed you.
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03-24-2011, 01:30 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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At least I provided *something*. It was supposed to be more of an article to get a discussion going. I'm not talking psychics that see the future, or can move things with their minds, just our own observational different on randomness.
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03-28-2011, 11:40 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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is pretty sure |
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