July 16, 2014 in Science & Technology

What is Random?

There’s more over on Veritasium! “What is NOT Random?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMb00lz-IfE SOURCES AND MORE BELOW! My twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce My instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants Generate random numbers using atmospheric noise: http://www.random.org/ randomness: http://www.random.org/randomness/ http://www.random.org/analysis/ http://faculty.rhodes.edu/wetzel/random/mainbody.html http://faculty.rhodes.edu/wetzel/random/level23intro.html https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sciamer.html flipping a coin until 10 heads happen in a row: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvIGNXY21Y rolling dice until you get a Yahtzee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTwar7mFws find word in YouTube video URLs with this in Google: allinurl:[your word here] site:youtube.com/watch “Random” as slang: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=3&ref=on_language Our Obsession with the Word “Random”: Fear of a Millennial Planet The many sides of dice: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dice_by_number_of_sides#D100 non-transitive dice: http://mathsgear.co.uk/products/non-transitive-grime-dice Checking the fairness of dice: http://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/ http://www.1000d4.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dice-unified-final-big.jpg http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That’s_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_of_Dice http://www.insidescience.org/blog/2012/09/12/dice-rolls-are-not-completely-random A